City That Never Sleeps : : New York and the Filmic Imagination / / Nicole Solano; ed. by Murray Pomerance.

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 skyscraper...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2007]
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prelude: To Wake Up in the City That Never Sleeps
  • MEMORY ALL ALONE IN THE MOONLIGHT
  • "I Love New York!": BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY' S
  • A Day in New York: On the Town and The Clock
  • Paradise Lost and Found: A Bronx Tale
  • THERE'S A PLACE FOR US
  • Woody Allen's New York
  • From Mean Streets to the Gangs of New York
  • Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
  • A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
  • WHISPERING ESCAPADES OUT ON THE D TRAIN
  • "When We See the Ocean, We Figure We're Home"
  • He Cuts Heads: Spike Lee and the New York Experience
  • New York Class-Passing Onscreen in the 1930s
  • STAYIN' ALIVE. City of Danger and Adjustment
  • City of Nightmares: The New York of Sidney Lumet
  • Urban Irrational: Rosemary's Baby, Polanski, New York
  • The City That Never Shuts Up: Aural Intrusion in New York Apartment Films
  • Wretched Refuse: Watching New York Ethnic Slum Films in the Aftermath of 9/11
  • Night World: New York as a Noir Universe
  • Works Cited and Consulted
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index