City that never sleeps : New York and the filmic imagination / edited by Murray Pomerance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solano, Nicole, Author.

Contributor:

Pomerance, Murray, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (N.Y.)--In motion pictures.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. From Street Scene and Breakfast at Tiffany's to Rosemary's Baby, The Warriors, and 25th Hour, the sixteen essays in this book explore 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. Contributors consider the work of Woody Allen, Blake Edwards, Alfred Hitchcock, Gregory La Cava, Spike Lee, Sidney Lumet, Vincente Minnelli, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Andy Warhol, and numerous others.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prelude: To Wake Up in the City That Never Sleeps / Pomerance, Murray

MEMORY ALL ALONE IN THE MOONLIGHT

"I Love New York!": BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY' S / Lehman, Peter / Luhr, William

A Day in New York: On the Town and The Clock / Bukatman, Scott

Paradise Lost and Found: A Bronx Tale / Grant, Barry Keith

THERE'S A PLACE FOR US

Woody Allen's New York / Rothman, William

From Mean Streets to the Gangs of New York / Massood, Paula J.

Can't Take My Eyes Off of You / Gerstner, David A.

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place / Pomerance, Murray

WHISPERING ESCAPADES OUT ON THE D TRAIN

"When We See the Ocean, We Figure We're Home" / Desser, David

He Cuts Heads: Spike Lee and the New York Experience / Sterritt, David

New York Class-Passing Onscreen in the 1930's / Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey

STAYIN' ALIVE. City of Danger and Adjustment

City of Nightmares: The New York of Sidney Lumet / Grace, Pamela

Urban Irrational: Rosemary's Baby, Polanski, New York / McElhaney, Joe

The City That Never Shuts Up: Aural Intrusion in New York Apartment Films / Weis, Elisabeth / Thom, Randy

Wretched Refuse: Watching New York Ethnic Slum Films in the Aftermath of 9/11 / Carr, Steven Alan

Night World: New York as a Noir Universe / Dixon, Wheeler Winston

Works Cited and Consulted

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-266) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-94721-7

9786610947218

0-8135-4134-4

OCLC:

476107149