Celluloid Skyline Sanders, James

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 such films such as "42nd Street, "Rear Window, "King Kong, "Dead End, "The Naked City, "Ghostbusters, "Annie Hall, "Taxi Driver, and" Do the Right Thing -- a magical city of the imagination that is as complex, dynamic, and familiar as its namesake of stone and steel.
As James Sanders shows in this deeply original work, the dream city of the movies -- created by more than a century of films, from the very dawn of the medium itself -- may hold the secret to the allure and excitement of the actual place. Here are the cocktail parties and power lunches, the subway chases and opening nights, the playground rumbles and rooftop romances. Here is an invented Gotham, a place designed specifically for action, drama, and adventure, a city of bright avenues and mysterious side streets, of soaring towers and intimate corners, where remarkable people do exciting, amusing, romantic, scary things. Sanders takes us 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.
Lavishly illustrated with scores of rare and unusual production images culled from Sanders's decade-long research in studio archives and private collections around the country, "Celluloid Skyline offers a new way to see not only America's greatest metropolis, but cities the world over.

"From the Hardcover edition.

From the Publisher:
A richly illustrated study of New York City explores how movies have shaped, influenced, mythologized, and invented the city in such films as 42nd Street, Rear Window, Taxi Driver, Annie Hall, and Ghostbusters and reveals how the real-life New York City has been transformed by Hollywood.A richly illustrated study of New York City explores how movies have shaped, influenced, mythologized, and invented the city in such films as 42nd Street, Rear Window, Taxi Driver, Annie Hall, and Ghostbusters and reveals how the real-life New York City has been transformed by Hollywood. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Annotation:
Written by an architect, this volume looks at New York through the lenses of Hollywood, exploring how the city has been represented cinematically over the years. Includes over 300 photos and film stills.

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"Sanders is an architect by training, and his book, whose readings of the cinema's numerous New York stories would put many a professional critic to shame, is built to last, Page for page, this is the best new film book of the year." - Christopher Bray December 2002

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Book Format:		Paperback
Number of Pages:		0512
Publisher:		Knopf Publishing Group

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