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Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic
By Frankel, Glenn
- ISBN
- 9780374209018
- Publisher
- Farrar
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Starred Review on December 1, 2020 | Arts & Humanities
One of cinema's most daring and widely acclaimed films, Midnight Cowboy has long deserved this kind of focused consideration. Frankel (High Noon), a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, paints the story of the film with a wide and holistic brush, encompassing the unsettled and divided nature of America in the late 1960s, the shift in cinema toward more realistic depictions of adult themes, and the lives of director Joh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
