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City That Never Sleeps
Murray . Ed(S): Pomerance
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Description for City That Never Sleeps
Paperback. From ""Street Scene"" and ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" to ""Rosemary's Baby"", ""The Warriors"", and ""25th Hour"", this book explores the cinematic representation of New York as a city of experience, as a locus of ideographic characters and spaces, as a city of moves and traps, and as a site of allurement and danger. Editor(s): Pomerance, Murray. Num Pages: 304 pages, 19 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 399.
New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place for its tensions and promises, dazzling illumination and fearsome darkness.
The glittering skyscrapers of such films as On the Town have shadowed the characteristic seedy streets in which desperate, passionate stories have played out-as in Scandal Sheet and The Pawnbroker. In other films, the city is a cauldron of bright lights, technology, empire, egotism, fear, hunger, and change--the scenic epitome of America in the modern age.
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New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place for its tensions and promises, dazzling illumination and fearsome darkness.
The glittering skyscrapers of such films as On the Town have shadowed the characteristic seedy streets in which desperate, passionate stories have played out-as in Scandal Sheet and The Pawnbroker. In other films, the city is a cauldron of bright lights, technology, empire, egotism, fear, hunger, and change--the scenic epitome of America in the modern age.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813540320
SKU
V9780813540320
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About Murray . Ed(S): Pomerance
MURRAY POMERANCE is a professor in the sociology department at Ryerson University and the author and editor of numerous books, including Johnny Depp Starts Here.
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