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Street Smart
Richard Aloysius Blake
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Description for Street Smart
Offers a novel approach to understanding the cultural influences of New York's neighborhoods on the work of four quintessentially New York filmmakers: Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee. This book examines their home villages to enrich our critical understanding of their films. Num Pages: 360 pages, 22 photographs. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 644.
New York has appeared in more movies than Michael Caine, and as a result of overfamiliarity, the City poses a problem for critics and casual moviegoers alike. Audiences mistake the New York image of skyscrapers and glitter for the real thing, but in fact the City is a network of small villages, each with its unique personality. Street Smart offers a novel approach to understanding the cultural influences of New York's neighborhoods on the work of four quintessentially New York filmmakers: Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee. The city's diverse economic and ethnic enclaves, where people live, ... Read more
New York has appeared in more movies than Michael Caine, and as a result of overfamiliarity, the City poses a problem for critics and casual moviegoers alike. Audiences mistake the New York image of skyscrapers and glitter for the real thing, but in fact the City is a network of small villages, each with its unique personality. Street Smart offers a novel approach to understanding the cultural influences of New York's neighborhoods on the work of four quintessentially New York filmmakers: Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee. The city's diverse economic and ethnic enclaves, where people live, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813123578
SKU
V9780813123578
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99-31
About Richard Aloysius Blake
Richard A. Blake, S.J., codirector of the Film Studies Program at Boston College, has served as an editor of America magazine for fourteen years, where he has been reviewing films for the past thirty years.
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