Keep 'em in the East : Kazan, Kubrick, and the postwar New York film renaissance / Richard Koszarski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koszarski, Richard, author.

Series:

Film and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Motion picture industry.

History.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 529 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Keep them in the East

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Away from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and the watchful eyes of the big studios, New York City re-emerged as a filmmaking center in the 1940s and 1950s. Filmmakers such as Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet, Stanley Kubrick, and John Cassavetes built on their prior experience in theater, television, industrial films, and other aspects of the city's diverse cultural life, to create a film culture that would increasingly influence the financing, production and aesthetics of Hollywood films. Using on-location shooting to create a realistic, documentary style and relying on improvisatory practices, New York films had a distinct look and feel. Without studio financing, directors and producers raised funds and established independent production companies, creating the model that would go on to dominate Hollywood in the years to come. Richard Koszarski's magisterial history of the birth of independent cinema in New York City includes behind-the-scenes production histories of such iconic film as Kazan's On the Waterfront and Kubrick's The Killer's Kiss . The book also reveals the importance of "race films" in the history of New York City film. These all-black productions intended for African American audiences in urban ghettos and the rural South had been around New York City since the 1920s. They not only helped to keep the film business afloat in New York City but also nurtured and developed a core group of writers, directors, designers, and technicians that would become instrumental in the city's later growth as a center for filmmaking. New York's independent production companies also provided jobs for women that were not open to them in Hollywood. Finally, the book tells how Mayor O'Dwyer helped bring filmmaking to New York and how the relatively stable labor situation, particularly in comparison to Hollywood at the time, made New York a more hospitable place for directors"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I ROOTS

1. Not Just Another Location

2. The Pathe Studio: Miniature Hollywood or Just Another False Dawn?

3. Now It Can Be Told: Louis de Rochemont, Henry Hathaway, and the Birth of Docudrama

4. Race Movies: New York's Original Independent Cinema

pt. II REVIVAL

5. Eight Million Stories

6. The O'Dwyer Plan

7. Joe Lerner's New York Noir

8. Just Passing Through

9. Pictures and Politics

pt. III RENAISSANCE

10. Crime on the Waterfront

11. Obsessed with Film

12. The Golden Warrior

13. Kiss Me, Kill Me

14. "And the Winner in New York Is ..."

15. Happy Ending

16. Thank You, Hollywood!.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Koszarski, Richard, Keep 'em in the East

ISBN:

9780231200981

0231200986

9780231200998

0231200994

OCLC:

1223015266

Publisher Number:

99988597367