{"product_id":"shooting-midnight-cowboy-art-sex-loneliness-liberation-and-the-making-of-a-dark-classic-paperback","title":"Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGlenn Frankel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Much more than a page-turner. It's the first essential work of cultural history of the new decade.\" --Charles Kaiser, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of the behind-the-scenes explorations of the classic American Westerns \u003ci\u003eHigh Noon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Searchers\u003c\/i\u003e now reveals the history of the controversial 1969 Oscar-winning film that signaled a dramatic shift in American popular culture.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDirector John Schlesinger's \u003ci\u003eDarling\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFar from the Madding Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGiven his recent travails, Schlesinger's next project seemed doubly daring, bordering on foolish. James Leo Herlihy's novel \u003ci\u003eMidnight Cowboy\u003c\/i\u003e, about a Texas hustler trying to survive on the mean streets of 1960s New York, was dark and transgressive. Perhaps something about the book's unsparing portrait of cultural alienation resonated with Schlesinger. His decision to film it began one of the unlikelier stories in cinematic history, centered on a city that seemed, at first glance, as unwelcoming as Herlihy's novel itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGlenn Frankel's \u003ci\u003eShooting \"Midnight Cowboy\"\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMidnight Cowboy\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMuch more than a history of Schlesinger's film, \u003ci\u003eShooting \"Midnight Cowboy\"\u003c\/i\u003e 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 the 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 theaters of Broadway, influenced by close relationships with Tennessee Williams and Anaïs Nin, and yet unable to find lasting literary success. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy turns madcap and serious, and enriched by interviews with Hoffman, Voight, and others, \u003ci\u003eShooting \"Midnight Cowboy\" Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark Classic \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlenn Frankel \u003c\/b\u003eworked for many years at \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1989. He has taught journalism at Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, where he directed the School of Journalism. He has won a National Jewish Book Award, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and is a Motion Picture Academy Film Scholar. He is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Searchers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHigh Noon\u003c\/i\u003e, and lives in Arlington, Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47395453337778,"sku":"9781250829498","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/7cb085516c2e0372c011b1bd3fd07e1b.webp?v=1777990270","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/shooting-midnight-cowboy-art-sex-loneliness-liberation-and-the-making-of-a-dark-classic-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}