Street smart
Subtitle: the New York of Lumet, Allen, Scorsese, and Lee
By: Richard A. Blake.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Lumet, Sidney, 1924- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Allen, Woody -- Criticism and interpretation.; Scorsese, Martin -- Criticism and interpretation.; Lee, Spike -- Criticism and interpretation.; New York (N.Y.) -- In motion pictures.
Description: "Street Smart examines the cultural influences of New York's neighborhoods on the work of four quintessentially New York filmmakers: Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee. The City's heterogeneous economic and ethnic districts, where people live, work, shop, worship, and go to school, often bear little relation to the image of New York City created by the movies. To these directors, their home city is as tangible as the smell of fried onions in the stairwell of an apartment building, and it is this New York, not the bustling, glittery illusion portrayed in earlier films, that shapes their sensibilities and receives expression in their films."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cinema city : all around the town; title: Lower East Side : Sidney Lumet; title: Flatbush : Woody Allen; title: Little Italy : Martin Scorsese; title: Fort Greene : Spike Lee.