Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic - Hardcover

Frankel, Glenn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374209014 ISBN 13: 9780374209018

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2021

Synopsis

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. Much more than a history of Schlesinger's film, Shooting Midnight Cowboy is an arresting glimpse into the world from which it emerged. By turns madcap and serious, and enriched by interviews with Hoffman, Voight, and others, this 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.

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About the Author

Glenn Frankel worked for many years at The Washington Post, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1989. He taught journalism at Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin, where he directed the School of Journalism. He won the National Jewish Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Searchers and High Noon, and he lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374209014
• ISBN 13: 9780374209018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432