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Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies

Door James Sanders

Categorie	Verenigde Staten & Canada
Boeknummer	#305167-KJ8
Titel	Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies
Auteur	Sanders, James
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Bloomsbury
Jaar van uitgave	2002
ISBN10	0747559791
ISBN13	9780747559795
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards with silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrations in b/w, small 4to.
Samenvatting	This is a tale of two cities, both called 'New York'. The first is a real city, an urban agglomeration of millions. The second is a mythic city, so rich in memory and association and sense of place that to people everywhere it has come to seem real: the New York of films such as "42nd Street", "Rear Window", "King Kong", "Dead End", "The Naked City", "Ghostbusters", "Annie Hall", "Taxi Driver", and "Do the Right Thing". The dream city of the movies - created by more than a century of films, since the very dawn of the medium itself - may hold the secret to the glamour of its real counterpart. Here are the cocktail parties and power lunches, the subway chases and opening nights, the playground rumbles a... (Lees verder)nd observation-deck romances. Here is an invented Gotham, a place designed specifically for action, drama, and adventure, a city of bright avenues and mysterious sidestreets, of soaring towers and intimate corners, where remarkable people do exciting, amusing, romantic, scary things. Sanders takes the reader from the tenement to the penthouse, from New York to Hollywood and back again, from 1896 to the present, all the while showing how the real and mythic cities reflected, changed, and taught each other.
Pagina's	496
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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