Fun City Cinema av Jason Bailey

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<B>Film critic and historian Jason Bailey presents a visual history of 100 years of filmmaking in New York City, featuring exclusive interviews with NYC filmmakers.</B><BR/><BR/><B>Foreword by Matt Zoller Seitz</B><BR/><BR/><I>Fun City Cinema</I> gives readers an in-depth look at how the rise, fall, and resurrection of New York City was captured and chronicled in 10 iconic Gotham films across 10 decades: <I>The Jazz Singer </I>(1927), <I>King Kong </I>(1933), <I>The Naked City </I>(1948), <I>Sweet Smell of Success </I>(1957), <I>Midnight Cowboy </I>(1969), <I>Taxi Driver </I>(1976), <I>Wall Street </I>(1987), <I>Kids </I>(1995), <I>25th Hour </I>(2002), and <I>Frances Ha </I>(2012). A visual history of a great American city in flux, <I>Fun City Cinema</I> 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