Praise for Cinematic Immunity
“…the book is unputdownably engaging; it’s futile to resist the temptation to quote it at length”
— Richard BrodyThe New Yorker
“Do not pick up this book if you have to be someplace in an hour…”
— Jim KellyAir Mail
“Michael Nirenberg’s writing about film is as funny, incisive, gritty and thrilling as the films whose lore he is diving into.”
— Lena DunhamWriter and director
“This book is a dream! … Fantastic.”
— Naomi FryStaff writer, The New Yorker
“… superb, often eye-popping accounts of the Golden Age of New York film.”
— Oliver MilmanStaff writer, The Guardian
“…told from an entirely new perspective…the below-the-line crews who know where all the bodies are buried! Fascinating, funny, and impossible to put down”
— Larry KaraszewskiEmmy-winning screenwriter
“… he’s assembled the definitive history of New York films and those who make them, which are—of course—one and the same.”
— Nick NewmanManaging editor, The Film Stage
“…Nirenberg presents a book that is riotously fun, full of gossip, and worthy of any world-class cinema studies program.”
— Alissa BennettWriter and host of The C-Word podcast

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