City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination

by Aaron Baker and Murray Pomerance

Book Overview

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 skyscrapers of such films as On the Town have shadowed the characteristic seedy streets in which desperate, passionate stories have played out-as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813540321
• ISBN13: 9780813540320
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"