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Hollywood On the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff

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WOW -- Monumental account of New York's film genius... from Edison and Griffith to Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese ..., anticipating more to come from the magical effects of New York's eternal magneticism. If he hasn't already, Richard Koszarski takes his place among the monumental geniuses of cinematic history with this insightful account. As revealed here, the New York signature pixie dust producing its unique illusions are far more inspirational sweat than celebrity dandruff.

I wrote about an earlier Koszarski book--The Astoria Studio and Its Fabulous Films: "The first resident historian at the renovated landmark Astoria Studios (APC), and then at the associated new American Museum of the Moving Image (AMMI), noted film scholar Richard Koszarski brought to life here an engaging early chronicle of a New York chapter of pictorial highlights in celebrating the best in American media. Published nearly twenty years before this age of grim Taliban influences and videogame savageries, it may be time again for us to reflect on a new sequel of refreshing views and memories in these serial chapters of American media culture."