World Film Locations: New York (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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World Film New York is a visually compelling and incisively written examination, and celebration, of New YorkOCOs unique place in cinema. Essays focusing on quintessential New York filmmakers like Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and those of the Beat movement are presented alongside others on key features of the New York landscape and role of the city in the imaginations of filmmakers and viewers. Over 45 reviews of location-specific scenes from films made and set in New York present a varied and thought-provoking collage of the city onscreen. Some scenes are iconic OCo King Kong scaling the Empire State Building OCo while others show the often un-discussed extent of New YorkOCOs role in filmmaking. The book is illustrated throughout with evocative, scene-specific screengrabs, stills of filming locations as they appear now and city maps that include location information for those keen to follow the OCycinematic trailOCO of this most photographed city, making World Film New York a guide for film fans wishing to tour New York either physically or in the imagination."