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Shooting Midnight Cowboy : Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel (2021, Hardcover)-image

Shooting Midnight Cowboy : Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel (2021, Hardcover)

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Book Title: Shooting Midnight Cowboy : Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic ISBN-10: 0374209014 ISBN-13: 9780374209018 Item Height: 1.5 in brand: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Synopsis: "Much more than a page-turner. It's the first essential work of cultural history of the new decade." --Charles Kaiser, The Guardian One of The Washington Post 's 50 best nonfiction books of 2021 A Publishers Weekly best book of 2021 The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times -bestselling author of the behind-the-scenes explorations of the classic American Westerns High Noon and The Searchers now reveals the history of the controversial 1969 Oscar-winning film that signaled a dramatic shift in American popular culture. Director John Schlesinger's Darling was nominated for five Academy Awards, and introduced the world to the transcendently talented Julie Christie. Suddenly the toast of Hollywood, Schlesinger used his newfound clout to film an expensive, Panavision adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd . Expectations were huge, making the movie's complete critical and commercial failure even more devastating, and Schlesinger suddenly found himself persona non grata in the Hollywood circles he had hoped to conquer. Given his recent travails, Schlesinger's next project seemed doubly daring, bordering on foolish. James Leo Herlihy's novel Midnight Cowboy , about a Texas hustler trying to survive on the mean streets of 1960's New York, was dark and transgressive. Perhaps something about the book's unsparing portrait of cultural alienation resonated with him. His decision to film it began one of the unlikelier convergences in cinematic history, centered around a city that seemed, at first glance, as unwelcoming as Herlihy's novel itself. Glenn Frankel's Shooting Midnight Cowboy tells the story of a modern classic that, by all accounts, should never have become one in the first place. The film's boundary-pushing subject matter--homosexuality, prostitution, sexual assault--earned it an X rating when it first appeared in cinemas in 1969. For Midnight Cowboy , Schlesinger--who had never made a film in the United States--enlisted Jerome Hellman, a producer coming off his own recent flop and smarting from a failed marriage, and Waldo Salt, a formerly blacklisted screenwriter with a tortured past. The decision to shoot on location in New York, at a time when the city was approaching its gritty nadir, backfired when a sanitation strike filled Manhattan with garbage fires and fears of dysentery. Much more than a history of Schlesinger's film, Shooting Midnight Cowboy is an arresting glimpse into the world from which it emerged: a troubled city that nurtured the talents and ambitions of the pioneering Polish cinematographer Adam Holender and legendary casting director Marion Dougherty, who discovered both Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight and supported them for the roles of "Ratso" Rizzo and Joe Buck--leading to one of the most intensely moving joint performances ever to appear on screen. We follow Herlihy himself as he moves from the experimental confines of Black Mountain College to the theatres of Broadway, influenced by close relationships with Tennessee Williams and Anaïs Nin, and yet unable to find lasting literary success. By turns madcap and serious, and enriched by interviews with Hoffman, Voight, and others, Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic is not only the definitive account of the film that unleashed a new wave of innovation in American cinema, but also the story of a country--and an industry--beginning to break free from decades of cultural and sexual repression. gtin13: 9780374209018 LC Classification Number: PN1997.M43686F73 Language: English Number of Pages: 432 Pages Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Genre: Performing Arts, Social Science Illustrator: Yes Reviews: In this outstanding work . . . [Glenn Frankel] covers every facet of [ Midnight Cowboy's ] creation . . . In a canny move, Frankel places the film in historical context, detailing major world events at the time of the shoot, including the Vietnam War, New York's 'downward path to seemingly terminal decline,' and the Stonewall riots . . . Interviews with the film's surviving principals add immediacy, and descriptions of small production details enhance the book's power . . . A rare cinema book that is as mesmerizing as its subject." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "From the author of the splendid The Searchers (2013) comes another making-of book that transcends the genre. This is no mere story of the production of [ Midnight Cowboy ]; instead, it offers in-depth portraits of the man who created the characters of Joe Buck and Ratso Rizzo . . . and the men who gave them cinematic life . . . Frankel, who won a Pulitzer in 1989 for international reporting, brings a reporter's eye to the story . . . Midnight Cowboy is an acknowledged classic of American cinema, and Frankel provides us with the context we need to fully appreciate the film as a vivid snapshot of a specific time and place in American history." --David Pitt, Booklist (starred review) "The 'biography' of a film--how it got made, the background of everyone involved, what we made of it then and what we make of it now--may be my favorite genre, and Glenn Frankel is unexcelled as a master of the form. Here with his usual meticulous research he outdoes himself with Midnight Cowboy , a film particularly resonant for the taboos it broke and its surprising success at a transitional moment in our cultural history. All the backstories provide rich reading, unearthing little-known facts that illuminate whole careers. Shooting Midnight Cowboy is many things, but most thrillingly it is the story of how three outsiders--gay novelist, gay director and blacklisted screenwriter--furthered the acceptance of gay themes in books and movies by making a film about human loss." --Molly Haskell, author of Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films "Midnight Cowboy was one of my favorite movies ever -- dark, soulful, with an odd couple of 'losers' who won at the game of friendship. But Glenn Frankel's book goes far beyond doing the epic film justice. Creating a compelling narrative of a vibrant, roiling, unexpected chain of creatives that spanned from Black Mountain College in 1947 to the movie's release at the tail end of the desolate sixties in Manhattan, Frankel has done that rare, great thing: shown us a world within a world of literary, filmic, and human longing and linked singular gems of history into a fresh and truthful mosaic." -- Sheila Weller, New York Times bestselling - author of Girls Like Us and Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge "In Shooting Midnight Cowboy , Glenn Frankel illuminates the cultural forces that fed the creation of an iconic 1960s classic. This perceptive work elegantly captures how a movie can embody a moment in time." -- Julie Salamon, author of The Devil's Candy and An Innocent Bystander, "The 'biography' of a film--how it got made, the background of everyone involved, what we made of it then and what we make of it now--may be my favorite genre, and Glenn Frankel is unexcelled as a master of the form. Here with his usual meticulous research he outdoes himself with Midnight Cowboy , a film particularly resonant for the taboos it broke and its surprising success at a transitional moment in our cultural history. All the backstories provide rich reading, unearthing little-known facts that illuminate whole careers. Shooting Midnight Cowboy is many things, but most thrillingly it is the story of how three outsiders--gay novelist, gay director and blacklisted screenwriter--furthered the acceptance of gay themes in books and movies by making a film about human loss." --Molly Haskell, author of Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films "Midnight Cowboy was one of my favorite movies ever -- dark, soulful, with an odd couple of 'losers' who won at the game of friendship. But Glenn Frankel's book goes far beyond doing the epic film justice. Creating a compelling narrative of a vibrant, roiling, unexpected chain of creatives that spanned from Black Mountain College in 1947 to the movie's release at the tail end of the desolate sixties in Manhattan, Frankel has done that rare, great thing: shown us a world within a world of literary, filmic, and human longing and linked singular gems of history into a fresh and truthful mosaic." -- Sheila Weller, New York Times bestselling author of Girls Like Us and Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge "In Shooting Midnight Cowboy , Glenn Frankel illuminates the cultural forces that fed the creation of an iconic 1960s classic. This perceptive work elegantly captures how a movie can embody a moment in time." -- Julie Salamon, author of The Devil's Candy and An Innocent Bystander, "The 'biography' of a film--how it got made, the background of everyone involved, what we made of it then and what we make of it now--may be my favorite genre, and Glenn Frankel is unexcelled as a master of the form. Here with his usual meticulous research he outdoes himself with Midnight Cowboy , a film particularly resonant for the taboos it broke and its surprising success at a transitional moment in our cultural history. All the backstories provide rich reading, unearthing little-known facts that illuminate whole careers. Shooting Midnight Cowboy is many things, but most thrillingly it is the story of how three outsiders--gay novelist, gay director and blacklisted screenwriter--furthered the acceptance of gay themes in books and movies by making a film about human loss." --Molly Haskell, author of Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films "Midnight Cowboy was one of my favorite movies ever -- dark, soulful, with an odd couple of 'losers' who won at the game of friendship. But Glenn Frankel's book goes far beyond doing the epic film justice. Creating a compelling narrative of a vibrant, roiling, unexpected chain of creatives that spanned from Black Mountain College in 1947 to the movie's release at the tail end of the desolate sixties in Manhattan, Frankel has done that rare, great thing: shown us a world within a world of literary, filmic, and human longing and linked singular gems of history into a fresh and truthful mosaic." -- Sheila Weller, New York Times bestselling - author of Girls Like Us and Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge "In Shooting Midnight Cowboy , Glenn Frankel illuminates the cultural forces that fed the creation of an iconic 1960s classic. This perceptive work elegantly captures how a movie can embody a moment in time." -- Julie Salamon, author of The Devil's Candy and An Innocent Bystander, "From the author of the splendid The Searchers (2013) comes another making-of book that transcends the genre. This is no mere story of the production of [ Midnight Cowboy ]; instead, it offers in-depth portraits of the man who created the characters of Joe Buck and Ratso Rizzo . . . and the men who gave them cinematic life . . . Frankel, who won a Pulitzer in 1989 for international reporting, brings a reporter's eye to the story . . . Midnight Cowboy is an acknowledged classic of American cinema, and Frankel provides us with the context we need to fully appreciate the film as a vivid snapshot of a specific time and place in American history." --David Pitt, Booklist (starred review) "The 'biography' of a film--how it got made, the background of everyone involved, what we made of it then and what we make of it now--may be my favorite genre, and Glenn Frankel is unexcelled as a master of the form. Here with his usual meticulous research he outdoes himself with Midnight Cowboy , a film particularly resonant for the taboos it broke and its surprising success at a transitional moment in our cultural history. All the backstories provide rich reading, unearthing little-known facts that illuminate whole careers. Shooting Midnight Cowboy is many things, but most thrillingly it is the story of how three outsiders--gay novelist, gay director and blacklisted screenwriter--furthered the acceptance of gay themes in books and movies by making a film about human loss." --Molly Haskell, author of Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films "Midnight Cowboy was one of my favorite movies ever -- dark, soulful, with an odd couple of 'losers' who won at the game of friendship. But Glenn Frankel's book goes far beyond doing the epic film justice. Creating a compelling narrative of a vibrant, roiling, unexpected chain of creatives that spanned from Black Mountain College in 1947 to the movie's release at the tail end of the desolate sixties in Manhattan, Frankel has done that rare, great thing: shown us a world within a world of literary, filmic, and human longing and linked singular gems of history into a fresh and truthful mosaic." -- Sheila Weller, New York Times bestselling - author of Girls Like Us and Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge "In Shooting Midnight Cowboy , Glenn Frankel illuminates the cultural forces that fed the creation of an iconic 1960s classic. This perceptive work elegantly captures how a movie can embody a moment in time." -- Julie Salamon, author of The Devil's Candy and An Innocent Bystander, In this outstanding work . . . [Glenn Frankel] covers every facet of [ Midnight Cowboy's ] creation . . . In a canny move, Frankel places the film in historical context, detailing major world events at the time of the shoot, including the Vietnam War, New York's 'downward path to seemingly terminal decline,' and the Stonewall riots . . . Interviews with the film's surviving principals add immediacy, and descriptions of small production details enhance the book's power . . . A rare cinema book that is as mesmerizing as its subject." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A vivid chronicle . . . Frankel offers behind-the-scenes anecdotes . . . [and] also renders the social upheaval of the era--the Stonewall riots, antiwar protests, racial unrest--and the window between the collapse of old Hollywood's heavy censorship and the rise of the profit-oriented blockbusters when Midnight Cowboy was made. This enthralling account of a boundary-breaking film is catnip for film buffs." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "From the author of the splendid The Searchers (2013) comes another making-of book that transcends the genre. This is no mere story of the production of [ Midnight Cowboy ]; instead, it offers in-depth portraits of the man who created the characters of Joe Buck and Ratso Rizzo . . . and the men who gave them cinematic life . . . Frankel, who won a Pulitzer in 1989 for international reporting, brings a reporter's eye to the story . . . Midnight Cowboy is an acknowledged classic of American cinema, and Frankel provides us with the context we need to fully appreciate the film as a vivid snapshot of a specific time and place in American history." --David Pitt, Booklist (starred review) "The 'biography' of a film--how it got made, the background of everyone involved, what we made of it then and what we make of it now--may be my favorite genre, and Glenn Frankel is unexcelled as a master of the form. Here with his usual meticulous research he outdoes himself with Midnight Cowboy , a film particularly resonant for the taboos it broke and its surprising success at a transitional moment in our cultural history. All the backstories provide rich reading, unearthing little-known facts that illuminate whole careers. Shooting Midnight Cowboy is many things, but most thrillingly it is the story of how three outsiders--gay novelist, gay director and blacklisted screenwriter--furthered the acceptance of gay themes in books and movies by making a film about human loss." --Molly Haskell, author of Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films "Midnight Cowboy was one of my favorite movies ever -- dark, soulful, with an odd couple of 'losers' who won at the game of friendship. But Glenn Frankel's book goes far beyond doing the epic film justice. Creating a compelling narrative of a vibrant, roiling, unexpected chain of creatives that spanned from Black Mountain College in 1947 to the movie's release at the tail end of the desolate sixties in Manhattan, Frankel has done that rare, great thing: shown us a world within a world of literary, filmic, and human longing and linked singular gems of history into a fresh and truthful mosaic." -- Sheila Weller, New York Times bestselling - author of Girls Like Us and Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge "In Shooting Midnight Cowboy , Glenn Frankel illuminates the cultural forces that fed the creation of an iconic 1960s classic. This perceptive work elegantly captures how a movie can embody a moment in time." -- Julie Salamon, author of The Devil's Candy and An Innocent Bystander LCCN: 2020-034903 Publication Year: 2021 Item Weight: 23.9 Oz Topic: Popular Culture, Film / History & Criticism Intended Audience: Trade Dewey Edition: 23 Item Width: 6.4 in Format: Hardcover Dewey Decimal: 791.4372 Item Length: 9.3 in Table Of Content: Introduction 1. The Writer 2. The Laziest Boy 3. Twisted Apples 4. Darling 5. The Gay Metropolis 6. "A Touch of the Flicks" 7. The Novel 8. The Producer 9. The Screenwriter 10. Fun City 11. The Voice of His Generation 12. The Golf Pro's Son 13. The Armies of the Night 14. Preparation 15. Stolen Shots: The New York Film Shoot 16. Nosecones and Rattlesnakes: The Florida and Texas Film Shoot 17. Image and Sound 18. The X Rating 19. The Movie 20. Explosions 21. The Oscars 22. From Jim to Jamie Epilogue 10. Fun City 11. The Voice of His Generation 12. The Golf Pro's Son 13. The Armies of the Night 14. Preparation 15. Stolen Shots: The New York Film Shoot 16. Nosecones and Rattlesnakes: The Florida and Texas Film Shoot 17. Image and Sound 18. The X Rating 19. The Movie 20. Explosions 21. The Oscars 22. From Jim to Jamie Epilogue 20. Explosions 21. The Oscars 22. From Jim to Jamie Epilogue 10. Fun City 11. The Voice of His Generation 12. The Golf Pro's Son 13. The Armies of the Night 14. Preparation 15. Stolen Shots: The New York Film Shoot 16. Nosecones and Rattlesnakes: The Florida and Texas Film Shoot 17. Image and Sound 18. The X Rating 19. The Movie 20. Explosions 21. The Oscars 22. From Jim to Jamie Epilogue 10. Fun City 11. The Voice of His Generation 12. The Golf Pro's Son 13. The Armies of the Night 14. Preparation 15. Stolen Shots: The New York Film Shoot 16. Nosecones and Rattlesnakes: The Florida and Texas Film Shoot 17. Image and Sound 18. The X Rating 19. The Movie 20. Explosions 21. The Oscars 22. From Jim to Jamie Epilogue 20. Explosions 21. The Oscars 22. From Jim to Jamie Epilogue 20. Explosions 21. The Oscars 22. From Jim to Jamie Epilogue 10. Fun City 11. The Voice of His Generation 12. The Golf Pro's Son 13. The Armies of the Night 14. Preparation 15. Stolen Shots: The New York Film Shoot 16. Nosecones and Rattlesnakes: The Florida and Texas Film Shoot 17. Image and Sound 18. The X Rating 19. The Movie 20. Explosions 21. The Oscars 22. From Jim to Jamie Epilogue 20. Explosions 21. The Oscars 22. From Jim to Jamie Epilogue 16. Nosecones and Rattlesnakes: The Florida and Texas Film Shoot 17. Image and Sound 18. The X Rating 19. The Movie 20. Explosions 21. The Oscars 22. From Jim to Jamie Epilogue 20. Explosions 21. The Oscars 22. From Jim to Jamie Epilogue 22. From Jim to Jamie Epilogue Author: Glenn Frankel

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