CINEMATIC IMMUNITY

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CINEMATIC IMMUNITY tells the story of New York City's movie industry
from the crew members who created the sets, lit the scenes, and shot
the film. Focused on the golden age of New York filmmaking, CINEMATIC
IMMUNITY covers On the Waterfront through The Sopranos. The East
Coast film industry, thousands of miles from the Los Angeles executives,
existed by its own rules and with little oversight. It was a close-knit and
freewheeling community of movie technicians that took on the most
outrageous challenges to get every shot perfect. Behind-the-scenes
documentaries and books feature 'above the line' talent-actors,
producers, directors, and writers. For the first time, readers will hear the
unvarnished truth of the New York movie industry-tales about union
politics, labor strikes, movie families, dangerous locations, difficult shots,
volatile directors, anecdotes about actors, pranks, friendships, rivalries,
generational shifts, substance use and abuse, technical feats, and more.
Readers will hear never heard before stories about classic (and not so
classic) films and television shows including: Midnight Cowboy, The
French Connection, The Exorcist, The Godfather, The Wiz, Annie Hall,
When Harry Met Sally, The Sopranos, Law and Order, and more.
Author Michael Lee Nirenberg has worked as a scenic artist in New York
since 2006, and in many cases, alongside many of the people featured in
the book. This book is a labor of love comprised of over 150 interviews
and hundreds of hours of recordings. CINEMATIC IMMUNITY includes
hundreds of behind-the-scenes images from studio archives and from
the technicians who were there.