Starring New York - Filming the Grime and the Glamour of the Long 1970s

Zusatztext Starring New York demonstrates a hugely productive alignment between urban, cultural, and visual studies that suggests the potential for a range of interdisciplinary studies in this area. Those interested in such an intersection will find much to commend in the book. Informationen zum Autor Stanley Corkin is Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of Realism and the Birth of the Modern United States: Film, Literature, and Culture and Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and US History . Klappentext An urban history of the city that never sleeps through classic films such as Shaft, Annie Hall, Death Wish, The Godfather, and Taxi Driver, Starring New York showcases the city's lasting contribution to American cinema during a decade fraught with sociocultural changes. Zusammenfassung An urban history of the city that never sleeps through classic films such as Shaft, Annie Hall, Death Wish, The Godfather, and Taxi Driver, Starring New York showcases the city's lasting contribution to American cinema during a decade fraught with sociocultural changes.

Product details

• Authors: Stanley Corkin, Corkin Stanley
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.05.2011
• EAN: 9780195382792
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538279-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; New York, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Films, cinema, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General