The glittering skyscrapers of such motion pictures as On the Town have shadowed the attribute seedy streets within which determined, passionate tales have performed out-as in Scandal Sheet and The Pawnbroker. In different motion pictures, the urban is a cauldron of vivid lighting fixtures, know-how, empire, egotism, worry, starvation, and change--the scenic epitome of the USA within the glossy age.
From Street Scene and Breakfast at Tiffany's to Rosemary's child, The Warriors, and 25th Hour, the 16 essays during this booklet discover the cinematic illustration of recent York as a urban of expertise, as a locus of ideographic characters and areas, as a urban of strikes and traps, and as a domain of allurement and risk. individuals ponder the paintings of Woody Allen, Blake Edwards, Alfred Hitchcock, Gregory l. a. Cava, Spike Lee, Sidney Lumet, Vincente Minnelli, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Andy Warhol, and diverse others.
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