Introduction
Part I: Roots
1. Not Just Another Location
2. The Pathé Studio: Miniature Hollywood or Just Another False
Dawn?
3. Now It Can Be Told: Louis de Rochemont, Henry Hathaway, and the
Birth of Docudrama
4. Race Movies: New York’s Original Independent Cinema
Part II: Revival
5. Eight Million Stories
6. The O’Dwyer Plan
7. Joe Lerner’s New York Noir
8. Just Passing Through
9. Pictures and Politics
Part III: Renaissance
10. Crime on the Waterfront
11. Obsessed with Film
12. The Golden Warrior
13. Kiss Me, Kill Me
14. “And the Winner in New York Is . . .”
15. Happy Ending
16. Thank You, Hollywood!
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Richard Koszarski is professor emeritus of English and Cinema Studies at Rutgers University. He was formerly a curator at the Museum of the Moving Image and is the founder and editor emeritus of Film History. His many books include Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff (2008).
Among recent books on cinema, one of the most nourishing is Richard
Koszarski’s “Keep ’Em in the East”.
*The New Yorker*
Koszarski’s latest movie-industry history is an essential resource
for your bookshelves, a detailed inspection of critical film work
in the New York City area from the 1930s to 1950s and the release
of Elia Kazan’s On The Waterfront.
*The Bowery Boys*
This deep dive into the history of Postwar New York cinema is a
thrillingly paced read, taking the scholarly headiness of your
typical Columbia-backed book and this time pairing it with a
palpable energy that feels very much influenced by its subject. At
over 500 pages, the book isn’t short on stories or deep dives into
films, and with focuses on Kubrick and Kazan, will surely draw many
eyes when gift hunting.
*Criterion Cast*
"[This] book is rich with anecdotes, facts, and original insights,
no doubt ensuring it will be an indispensable work to scholars of
post-war American filmmaking. . . the book overall is a fitting
tribute and history to what is both an overlooked, yet rich and
influential period in American filmmaking."
*Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television*
This is an exceptional work of research and writing, years in the
making. If the production of cheesy films with Pigmeat Markham
doesn’t interest you, rest assured that the story grows more
captivating as it goes along. Keep ‘em in the East is a
knockout.
*Leonard Maltin*
[A]n ambitious socio-political fresco dedicated to the
'renaissance' of cinema in post-war boom New York.
*Cinecitta News*
Richard Koszarski is a bold historian, a meticulous researcher, and
a spellbinding storyteller. “Keep ‘Em in the East” masterfully
displays all his talents. Only Koszarski could so deftly weave
together industrial history, political infighting, social
conditions, personal and very human biographies, and pointed
appreciation of films as different as Naked City and Tall, Tan, and
Terrific. In the process, Koszarski brings to light forgotten
movies and trends, from little-known urban docudramas to the
important 'race films' made for Black audiences. The book’s final
stretch “crosscuts” Kazan's making On the Waterfront with Kubrick's
preparing Killer’s Kiss, and the result is as exciting as a
Hollywood chase. “Keep ‘Em in the East” permanently reshapes our
understanding of American film as an art, a business, and a
cultural force.
*David Bordwell, author of Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s
Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling*
Keep 'Em In the East is a valuable (and long overdue) work of
cinema scholarship. It broadens the parameters of American film
history to include the boroughs of New York, where independent
artists thrived far from Hollywood’s picture factories. Koszarski’s
exemplary research shows that New York’s influence extended beyond
Broadway’s influential writers, directors, and performers; it
included a whole cadre of cinematic talent who'd have a profound
impact on American movies.
*Eddie Muller, host of TCM's Noir Alley*
In this reassessment of the role of New York City in the history of
film, “Keep ’Em in the East” restores the city’s filmmaking
reputation with impeccable research and enthusiasm. No one would
dispute that Richard Koszarski is the only film historian who could
have written this book.
*Jeanine Basinger, author of The Star Machine*
Keep 'Em in the East is absorbing and enlightening. The dramas and
disasters are expertly told and brilliantly researched. The book is
a pleasure to read.
*Kevin Brownlow, author of The Parade's Gone By ... *
Keep 'Em in the East is an extraordinary achievement. Koszarski
knows more about the history of filmmaking in New York City than
anyone else, living or dead. This distills the central part of his
lifelong research. No one will ever match it. For those who love
New York and the movies, this book’s many surprises will provide an
unending source of fascination and information.
*Charles Musser, author of The Emergence of Cinema: The American
Screen to 1907*
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