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OverviewStarring New York considers twenty-one films in detail, and more generally discusses many others, that were shot on location and released between 1968 and 1981. Corkin looks at their complex relationship to the fortunes of New York City during that era, probing the multiple connections among film, history, and geography. This period was a volatile moment in the history of the city as it went from the hopefulness of the Lindsay years (1966 to 1973) to financial default in 1975, under the leadership of Abe Beame to its reemergence as a center of international finance in the 1980s, under the leadership of Edward I. Koch (1978 to 1989). These changing regimes and fortunes form the backdrop for films that picture New York's racial and ethnic populations, its decaying districts, its violent street-life, and its emerging gentrification by the later years of the decade. The films, directed by an emerging generation of filmmakers influenced both by the Italian neo-realists and the French auteurs, sought a higher realism than that offered in conventional Hollywood productions. Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, Sidney Lumet, Paul Mazursky, Woody Allen, and John Schlesinger, all of whom became noted by a general audience during this period, capture the excitement and volatility of the period. More broadly, Starring New York proposes that this concentration of popular films that picture the city in transition provide viewers with a means to begin reorienting their view of New York's space, their significance, and their relation to other places of the globe. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stanley Corkin (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Cincinnati)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780195382792ISBN 10: 019538279 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 09 June 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsI Introduction: New Hollywood, History, and the City ; II Sex and the City in Decline: Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Klute (1971) ; III Nostalgia, the Ethnic Neighborhood, and the World Outside: The Godfather Parts I and II (1972 and 1974) and Mean Streets (1973) ; IV Blaxploitation and Urban Decline: Harlem and the World Beyond, Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), Shaft (1971), Superfly (1972), Across 110th St. (1972), and Black Caesar (1974) ; V Policing the Unsafe City: The French Connection (1971), Serpico (1973), and Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Prince of the City (1981) ; VI Vigilance!: Death Wish (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), The Marathon Man (1976) ; VII Love, Marriage, and City Living: Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), An Unmarried Woman (1978), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)Reviews<br> Corkin's attention to political and sociological context leads him to provocative readings of key films. --Andrew Feffer, History News Network<p><br> For those who lived in New York in the 1970s and even more for those who are too young to recall those bad--or good--old days, Stanley Corkin shows a city poised on the cusp of gentrification and globalization. His re-reading of the era's most famous New York films documents the dissolution of the urban village of ethnic ties and the rise of the corporate city of finance and media. There's a lot to argue with in this book, but like the best action films, it will keep you on the edge of your seat. --Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places<p><br> A devastating romp through the changing filmography-cum-geography of 1970s New York. Hollywood meets urban geography not in the sun-drenched palm sprawl of LA but with the dark alleys and denizens of New York noir. Corkin is brilliant at reading the cit Author InformationStanley 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 . Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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