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Fun City Cinema
New York City and the Movies that Made It
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Fun City Cinema is perfect for film enthusiasts, cultural historians, and readers fascinated by New York City's evolving identity through the lens of cinema.
"A visual history of 100 years of filmmaking in New York City, featuring exclusive interviews with NYC filmmakers."--Provided by publisher.
A visual history of 100 years of filmmaking in New York City, featuring exclusive interviews with NYC filmmakers
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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 ten iconic Gotham films across ten 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 splendour, 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 ephemera, as well as still-frames, behind-the-scenes photos, and production materials from each film. Original interviews with Noah Baumbach, Larry Clark, Greta Gerwig, Walter Hill, Jerry Schatzberg, Martin Scorsese, Susan Seidelman, Oliver Stone, and Jennifer Westfeldt are also featured.
Extensive "Now Playing" sidebars spotlight a handful of each decade's additional films of note.
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Stephanie Zacharek of TIME praises the book for illuminating a 'third New York' that exists in cinema, reflecting the city's transformations from the skyscraper era to post-9/11. Publishers Weekly highlights Bailey's impressive cinematic knowledge combined with historical context, describing the work as an exhilarating and entertaining tour that cinephiles will appreciate as a preservation of cultural moments.
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ISBN: 9781419747816
Publisher: Abrams
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 28 October 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Abrams
Illustration: 300 color photographs
Contributors:
- Foreword by Matt Zoller Seitz
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 229.0mm
Height: 276.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 352
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About the Author
Jason Bailey is a film critic and historian. A graduate of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, and the former film editor of Flavorwire, his work has appeared in the New York Times, Vulture, Slate, VICE, the Atlantic, Salon, the Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Playlist, The Dissolve, and Crooked Marquee. He lives in the Bronx with his wife and two daughters. Fun City Cinema is his fifth book.
Matt Zoller Seitz is an editor at large for RogerEbert.com; the TV critic for New York magazine; the author of The Wes Anderson Collection, The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Oliver Stone Experience, and Mad Men Carousel; and the coauthor of The Sopranos Sessions. He is based in Cleveland, Ohio, and New York City.
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