Fear City Cinema

Author : Roger A. Salerno
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476680903

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Fear City Cinema by Roger A. Salerno Pdf

This book studies a grouping of films set in New York City between 1965 and 1995, reflecting a town besieged by rampant criminality, social distress and physical decay. "Fear City" is a term the NYPD used to label New York as a frightening environment, incapable of securing the safety of its residents. This book not only deals with the social problems evident in New York during this period, but also provides a study of how independent filmmakers were able to capture unsettling urban imagery, capitalizing on feelings of paranoia and dread. The author explores how the tone of these films reflects upon the anti-urbanism that led to the War on Crime, the mass exodus of working-class people from the city and mass incarceration of young Black men.

Author : Nathan Holmes
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438471211

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Welcome to Fear City by Nathan Holmes Pdf

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis. The early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films, blaxploitation, police procedurals, and heist films confronted spectators with contemporary scenes from urban streets. Welcome to Fear City argues that the location-shot crime films of the 1970s were part of a larger cultural ambivalence felt toward urban life, evident in popular magazines, architectural discourse, urban sociology, and visual culture. Yet they also helped to reinvigorate the city as a site of variegated experience and a positively disordered public life—in stark contrast to the socially homogenous and spatially ordered suburbs. Discussing the design of parking garages and street lighting, the dynamics of mugging, panoramas of ruin, and the optics of undercover police operations in such films as Klute, The French Connection, Detroit 9000, Death Wish, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Nathan Holmes demonstrates that crime genres did not simply mirror urban settings and social realities, but actively produced and circulated new ideas about the shifting surfaces of public culture. “Rejecting the easy abstractions and postmodern playfulness of noir and neo-noir criticism, Holmes places 1970s crime films, as he says, ‘in relation to the urban context that was their location, setting, and subject.’ He does this brilliantly, convincingly, and uniquely.” — David Desser, former editor, Cinema Journal

Author : Roger A. Salerno
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476645919

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Fear City Cinema by Roger A. Salerno Pdf

This book studies a grouping of films set in New York City between 1965 and 1995, reflecting a town besieged by rampant criminality, social distress and physical decay. "Fear City" is a term the NYPD used to label New York as a frightening environment, incapable of securing the safety of its residents. This book not only deals with the social problems evident in New York during this period, but also provides a study of how independent filmmakers were able to capture unsettling urban imagery, capitalizing on feelings of paranoia and dread. The author explores how the tone of these films reflects upon the anti-urbanism that led to the War on Crime, the mass exodus of working-class people from the city and mass incarceration of young Black men.

Author : Erica Stein
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438486642

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Seeing Symphonically by Erica Stein Pdf

Can the cinema imagine a different way of developing, using, and living in the city? Is it possible to do so using images of the extant city? Seeing Symphonically shows how a group of independent experimental, documentary, and feature films made in and about late modern New York City did just this. Between 1939 and 1964, as the city was being utterly remade by a combination of urban renewal projects, suburbanization, and high-rise public housing, the New York avant-garde reinvented the city symphony, a modernist form that depicted a day in the life of an urban environment through complex montage, optical effects, and street portraiture. Erica Stein documents how these New York City symphonies subverted and critiqued urban redevelopment through their aesthetics, particularly their rhythms, and, through those same rhythms, envisioned a world in which urban inhabitants have the absolute right to remake the city according to their needs, outside the demands of capital.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : NWU:35556033617085

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New York by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jason Bailey
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781647004699

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Fun City Cinema by Jason Bailey Pdf

A visual history of 100 years of filmmaking in New York City, featuring exclusive interviews with NYC filmmakers 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 splendor, 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 production materials, as well as still-frames, behind-the-scenes photos, posters, and original interviews with Noah Baumbach, Larry Clark, Greta Gerwig, Walter Hill, Jerry Schatzberg, Martin Scorsese, Susan Seidelman, Oliver Stone, and Jennifer Westfeldt. Extensive "Now Playing" sidebars spotlight a handful of each decade’s additional films of note.

Author : Nathan Holmes,University of Chicago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1267603887

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Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film and the Urban Imagination, 1970--1975 by Nathan Holmes,University of Chicago Pdf

This dissertation considers the construction of space and place in a cycle of contemporary-set urban crime films of the early 1970s, exploring how cinema and the city interacted with each other in the context of ongoing urban crisis and decline. Moving between formal analysis and cultural history, this study places location-shot American crime films of this era in the context of a national consciousness that questioned the suitability of the city as both an architectural and social form. Focusing on motifs of investigation and pursuit, I show how the generic production of movement, encounter, and observation on streets, through abandoned buildings and lots, and on roadways is inflected by popular discourses of urban anxiety. In applying emerging visual techniques and cinematographic styles to urban places, however, crime films also connected the city to new energies, producing new ways of understanding the changing urban form. As the declining centrality of American cities led to the promulgation of urbanity as a lifestyle choice, crime films introduced ways of seeing that both sustained fears and limned urban horizons.

Author : Louis D. Giannetti
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015002978859

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Masters of the American Cinema by Louis D. Giannetti Pdf

Author : Alexia Kannas
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438480343

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Giallo! by Alexia Kannas Pdf

Italian giallo films have a peculiar allure. Taking their name from the Italian for "yellow"— reflecting the covers of pulp crime novels—these genre movies were principally produced between 1960 and the late 1970s. These cinematic hybrids of crime, horror, and detection are characterized by elaborate set-piece murders, lurid aesthetics, and experimental soundtracks. Using critical frameworks drawn from genre theory, reception studies, and cultural studies, Giallo! traces this historically marginalized genre's journey from Italian cinemas to the global cult-film canon. Through close textual analysis of films including The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963), Blood and Black Lace (1964), The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), The Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971), and The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972), Alexia Kannas considers the rendering of urban space in the giallo and how it expresses a complex and unsettling critique of late modernity.

Author : Mario Falsetto,Liza Béar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124014270

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The Making of Alternative Cinema: Beyond the frame : dialogues with world filmmakers by Mario Falsetto,Liza Béar Pdf

Liza Bear's Beyond the Frame: Dialogues with World Filmmakers explores the world cinema of the past 25 years, and celebrates its range and diversity by paying detailed attention to the creative process. It contains roughly 50 interviews with, and short pieces on directors and other artistic collaborators from over twenty countries, primarily in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Liza Bear's incisive interviews provide immediate and rapid insights into directors' key themes and concerns. Her continual attention to bodies of work also allows the directors to explain what guided them in their respective movements towards and away from certain themes and genres. While directors are notorious for keeping their cards close to their chest, most of the interviews provided here have a stunning degree of openness and honesty, perhaps because many of these voices have had such a hard time getting heard in the first place. The dialogues examine, among other issues: the sources of the scripts, how the films get made and, where possible, the socioeconomic and cultural conditions under which the directors have worked, from Argentina to Iran to Romania. In addition to the interviews, there is an introduction by noted author Robin Andersen that elucidates recurrent themes arising out of the discussions, a foreword by Laurence Kardish, Film Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, filmographies, and numerous photographs.

Author : Michael Curtin,Kevin Sanson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520290853

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Precarious Creativity by Michael Curtin,Kevin Sanson Pdf

Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges workers face. The authors take on crucial issues and provide insightful case studies of workplace dynamics regarding creativity, collaboration, exploitation, and cultural difference. Furthermore, they investigate working conditions and organizing efforts on all six continents, offering comprehensive analysis of contemporary screen media labor in places such as Lagos, Prague, Hollywood, and Hyderabad, across a range of job categories that includes visual effects, production services, and adult entertainment. With contributions from John Caldwell, Vicki Mayer, Herman Gray, Tejaswini Ganti, and others, this collection offers timely critiques of media globalization and broader debates about labor, creativity, and precarity. “Every case study is an eye-opener, and no other book comes close in assessing the plight of creative workers in the era of global conglomerate Hollywood.” -THOMAS SCHATZ, University of Texas at Austin “A corrective to previous, U.S.-centric attempts to understand the global media economy by offering a bracing look at the dark underbelly of life for most media workers today.” -DENISE MANN, University of California, Los Angeles “A balanced and comprehensive portrayal of the reshaping of the contours of work and industry organization under the twin circumstances of digital disruption and a globalizing media system.” -TOM O'REGAN, The University of Queensland MICHAEL CURTIN is a professor of Film and Media Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. KEVIN SANSON is a Lecturer in Entertainment Industries at Queensland University of Technology in Australia.

Author : Harold Wallace Ross,William Shawn,Tina Brown,David Remnick,Katharine Sergeant Angell White,Rea Irvin,Roger Angell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN : NWU:35556033617077

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The New Yorker by Harold Wallace Ross,William Shawn,Tina Brown,David Remnick,Katharine Sergeant Angell White,Rea Irvin,Roger Angell Pdf

Author : Robert Cettl
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015056249835

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Serial Killer Cinema by Robert Cettl Pdf

"Each entry contains a listing of the film's main credits, a synopsis of the film, a summary of the film's respective merits and a discussion of how they fit into the themes and structures outlined in the introduction."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Videohound Editors,Videohound
Publisher : Broadway
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 055306715X

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1997 Videohound's Guide to Three and Four-Star Movies by Videohound Editors,Videohound Pdf

The creators of VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever present another winner--the ultimate guide to more than 3,000 of the best movies of all time. Extensive indexes of stars, directors, and over 325 wildly original categories, from Adolescence and Airborne Disasters to Wedding Bells and Wrong Side of the Tracks make it easy to hone in the perfect movie for any mood or occasion. Line drawings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Composers
ISBN : UCSD:31822020181335

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Film Composers Guide by Anonim Pdf