{"product_id":"celluloid-skyline-new-york-and-the-movies-9780375710278","title":"Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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 Sanderss decade-long research in studio archives and private collections around the country  Celluloid Skyline offers a new way to see not only Americas greatest metropolis  but cities the world over.  From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648133849141,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375710272","price":29.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375710278.jpg?v=1781710580","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/celluloid-skyline-new-york-and-the-movies-9780375710278","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}