{"product_id":"city-that-never-sleeps-new-york-and-the-filmic-imagination-9780813540320","title":"City That Never Sleeps New York and the Filmic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The glittering skyscrapers of such films as \u003ci\u003eOn the Town\u003c\/i\u003e have shadowed the characteristic seedy streets in which desperate, passionate stories have played out-as in \u003ci\u003eScandal Sheet \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Pawnbroker.\u003c\/i\u003e In other films, the city is a cauldron of bright lights, technology, empire, egotism, fear, hunger, and change--the scenic epitome of America in the modern age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eStreet Scene \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Breakfast at Tiffany''s\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eRosemary''s Baby, The Warriors\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003e25th Hour\u003c\/i\u003e, the sixteen essays in this book explore the cinematic representation of New York as a city of experience, as a locus of ideographic characters and spaces, as a city of moves and traps, a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Prelude: To Wake Up in the City That Never Sleeps\u003cbr\u003e Memory All Alone in the Moonlight: City of Experience\u003cbr\u003e There's a Place for Us: City of Characters and Spaces\u003cbr\u003e Whispering Escapades Out on the D Train: City of Moves and Traps\u003cbr\u003e Stayin' Alive: City of Danger and Adjustment\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited and Consulted\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038413357399,"sku":"9780813540320","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/city-that-never-sleeps-new-york-and-the-filmic-imagination-9780813540320","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}