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Daniel R. Schwarz - Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture - 9780312239480 - V9780312239480
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Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture

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Description for Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture Hardcover.
While analyzing Damon Runyon's high spirited work in terms of historical contexts, popular culture, and of the changing function of the media, Schwarz argues that in his columns and stories Runyon was an indispensable figure in creating our public images of New York City culture, including our interest in the demi-monde and underworld that explains in part the success of The Godfather films and The Sopranos . In his lively and exuberant chapters that include a panoramic view of New York City between the World Wars - with a focus on its colourful nightlife - Schwarz examines virtually every facet ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
346
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312239480
SKU
V9780312239480
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99-15

About Daniel R. Schwarz
DANIEL R. SCHWARZ is Professor of English and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1968. He has received Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences Russell award for distinguished teaching. He is the author of the widely read Imagining the Holocaust (1999). His most recent book is Rereading Conrad (2001). His prior books include ... Read more

Reviews for Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture
'Runyon exerted infulence far beyond writing a story and had an enormous impact on popular culture in America. Recommended...' - Katherine E. Merrill, Library Journal ''Runyonese' evoke[s] a perhaps mythical Manhatten occupied by amusing, sometimes violent or greedy perps.' - James Boylan, Columbia Journalism Review 'If you love anything to do with the history ... Read more

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