{"product_id":"starring-new-york-filming-the-grime-and-the-glamour-of-the-long-1970s-9780195382808","title":"Starring New York: Filming the Grime and the Glamour of the Long 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York City during the long 1970s was a place of high crime and high glamour that still holds tremendous fascination. During this era the city careened from the hopefulness of the Lindsay years to financial default in 1975 to its reemergence  under Mayor Koch  as a center of international finance. These changes form the backdrop for a body of films in which the city itself plays a starring role. The movies picture the citys racial and ethnic populations  its elite enclaves and decaying districts  its sometimes vibrant and often violent street-life  and--by the decades end--its emerging gentrification that would soon sweep away the vestiges of an iconic  acutely singular metropolis. 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 capture the excitement and volatility of the period; their films and others effectively narrate the citys changing fortunes. Starring New York examines the drama and dramas of those times  providing a reorientation to the landscape of the city  both as it was and as it is today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67661065781301,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195382803","price":73.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195382808.jpg?v=1791911233","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/starring-new-york-filming-the-grime-and-the-glamour-of-the-long-1970s-9780195382808","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}