The New Yorker Theater: And Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies

by Toby Talbot

Book Overview

The nation didn't know it, but 1960 would change American film forever, and the revolution would occur nowhere near a Hollywood set. With the opening of the New Yorker Theater, a cinema located at the heart of Manhattan's Upper West Side, cutting-edge films from around the world were screened for an eager audience, including the city's most influential producers, directors, critics, and writers. Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Susan Sontag, Andrew...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231145667
• ISBN13: 9780231145664
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher