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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Krieger, Peter |
| Title, Analytic | New York Skyscrapers, Made in Hamburg: Jerry Cotton as Visual Educator |
| Journal Title | Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement |
| Date of Publication | 2005 |
| Issue ID | 2 |
| Location in Work | 139-156, ill |
| ISSN | 1048-9134 |
| Abstract | Essay portrays how "movies could provide an important simulacrum for real experience while training their audiences to read architecture according to mainstream ideology. In this sense, the visual ambience of glass curtain walls was sufficient to create a virtual Manhattan as the stage for secret agent "Jerry Cotton," a pulp fiction hero in the mold of James Bond who appeared in a series of movies between 1965 and 1969. Because the low budget made filming in New York impossible, the hero, played by George Nader, instaead saved the world agains the backdrop of Hamburg. Stock footage of Manhattan's dramatic skyline was intercut with close-ups of high-rise facades in Hamburg. . . [testifying] as much to the artistic possibilities of film as to an actual interchangeability of buildings and locations within the now truly international style." |
| Notes | Papers originally presented at the 2003 conference: "From Manhattan to Mainhattan: Architecture and Style as Transatlantic Dialogue, 1920-1970"; includes bibliographical references |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Architecture/ 20th century |