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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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