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Street Smart : the New York of Lumet, Allen, Scorsese, and Lee.
New York has appeared in more movies than Michael Caine, and as a result of overfamiliarity, the City poses a problem for critics and casual moviegoers alike. Audiences mistake the New York image of skyscrapers and glitter for the real thing, but in fact the City is a network of small villages, each...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; A View from the Footbridge; A View from the Movies; Cinema City: All Around the Town; The Phantom City; A Parisian Spaceship; Film: Painting or Window?; Where Is New York, Really?; Establishing Shot through a Wide-Angle Lens; From Documentary to Cartoon; A Nation in Transition; New York, California; East Side, West Side; Home Sweet (and Sour) Home; Lower East Side: Sidney Lumet; Jewish New York; Small Screen, Big Opportunities; New York Forever; A Minority Opinion; 12 Angry Men (1957); The Pawnbroker.
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)Serpico (1974) and Prince of the City (1981); Q & A (1990); Night Falls on Manhattan (1997); The Verdict (1982); Other Examples; Conclusion; Flatbush: Woody Allen; The Death of Brooklyn; Crossing the East River; A Comedy of Displacement; Two Early Comedies; Beachhead in Manhattan; The Cultural Anthropologist; You Can Go Home Again; No Business Like Show Business; A Gray Line Bus Tour of Allentown; Little Italy: Martin Scorsese; The Sicilian Factor; Neighboring Villages; The Village Church; The Wider Horizon; Close to Home; Mean Streets of Home.
- Mean Streets of Brooklyn and QueensStill Mean in Las Vegas; Back to Manhattan; Other Mean Streets in Manhattan; Comic Turns; Still Other Avenues; On the Other Side of the World; Fort Greene: Spike Lee; The Other Side of Downtown; Moving On; Traces of Fort Greene; The Others; An Odd Kind of Conservative; A Capitalism of Social Responsibility; Gotta Have Bank; Back to Atlanta; Bed-Stuy: The Town Next Door; Back to Fort Greene; From Strivers Row to Benson hurst; The Journey of Malcolm X; Back in Time to Brooklyn; Another View of Brooklyn; Keeping Up the Beat; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.