City That Never Sleeps:
New York and the Filmic Imagination

edited by
Murray Pomerance

Contents

Acknowledgments
Murray POMERANCE: Prelude: To Wake Up in the City That Never Sleeps


Memory All Alone in the Moonlight: City of Experience

Peter LEHMAN and William LUHR: "I Love New York!": Breakfast at Tiffany's
Scott BUKATMAN: A Day in New York: On the Town and The Clock
Barry Keith GRANT: Paradise Lost and Found: A Bronx Tale

There's a Place for Us: City of Characters and Spaces

William ROTHMAN: Woody Allen's New York
Paula J. MASSOOD: From Mean Streets to the Gangs of New York: Ethnicity and Urban Space in the Films of Martin Scorsese
David A. GERSTNER: Can't Take My Eyes Off of You: Andy Warhol Records/Is New York
Murray POMERANCE: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: Hitchcock's New York

Whispering Escapades Out on the D Train: City of Moves and Traps

David DESSER: "When We See the Ocean, We Figure We're Home": From Ritual to Romance in The Warriors
David STERRITT: He Cuts Heads: Spike Lee and the New York Experience
Gwendolyn Audrey FOSTER: New York Class-Passing Onscreen in the 1930s
Aaron BAKER: Midtown Jewish Masculinity in Body and Soul

Stayin' Alive: City of Danger and Adjustment

Pamela GRACE: City of Nightmares: The New York of Sidney Lumet
Joe McELHANEY: Urban Irrational: Rosemary's Baby, Polanski, New York
Elisabeth WEIS and Randy THOM: The City That Never Shuts Up: Aural Intrusion in New York Apartment Films
Steven Alan CARR: Wretched Refuse: Watching New York Ethnic Slum Films in the Aftermath of 9/11
Wheeler Winston DIXON: Night World: New York as a Noir Universe

Works Cited and Consulted
Notes on Contributors
Index