Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic

This book chronicles the unlikely rise of a modern classic film. The Midnight Cowboy, despite its boundary-pushing subject matter, the film earned an X rating when it premiered in 1969. Schlesinger, a foreign filmmaker, assembled a talented team: Jerome Hellman, a producer recovering from a failed marriage, and Waldo Salt, a blacklisted screenwriter. Shooting on location in New York during the city’s decline was hindered by a sanitation strike.

Here is the account of the film that revolutionized American cinema. It also tells the story of a country and industry breaking free from decades of cultural and sexual repression.

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