Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies That Made It
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Film critic and historian Jason Bailey presents a visual history of 100 years of filmmaking in New York City, featuring exclusive interviews with NYC filmmakers. Foreword by Matt Zoller Seitz Fun City Cinema gives readers an in-depth look at how the rise, fall, and resurrection of New York City was captured and chronicled in 10 iconic Gotham films across 10 decades: The Jazz Singer (1927), King Kong (1933), The Naked City (1948), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Taxi Driver (1976), Wall Street (1987), Kids (1995), 25th Hour (2002), and Frances Ha (2012). A visual history of a great American city in flux, Fun City Cinema reveals how these classic films and legendary filmmakers took their inspiration from New York City's grittiness and splendor, creating what we can now view as "accidental documentaries" of the city's modes and moods. In addition to the extensively researched and reported text, the book includes both historical photographs and production materials, as well as still-frames, behind-the-scenes photos, posters, and original interviews with Noah Baumbach, Larry Clark, Greta Gerwig, Walter Hill, Jerry Schatzberg, Martin Scorsese, Susan Seidelman, Oliver Stone, and Jennifer Westfeldt. Extensive "Now Playing" sidebars spotlight a handful of each decade's additional films of note. "Jason Bailey takes us on a tour through not just New York cinema, but the city that gave birth to it and the fantastic, absurd, glorious ways in which New York's history is, all on its own, stranger than fiction. New York owes much to the cinema, and the cinema owes much back, and Fun City Cinema is a wild and gorgeous ride through that brilliant relationship." --Vox
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1419747819
ISBN13:9781419747816
Release Date:October 2021
Publisher:Harry N. Abrams
Length:352 Pages
Weight:3.80 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 9.4" x 11.0"
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