Badger AF reviewed Shooting Midnight Cowboy by Glenn Frankel
A great book about a groundbreaking movie
5 stars
This book is like a core sample of the late 1960s and the changing cultural and sexual mores of the time. I was only 5 years-old when this came out, but I saw it later on television in the mid-70s.
I was shocked at the squalor of then NYC but it also opened me to how others live.
Yes, the movie is dated in how it viewed homosexuality, and it is still a product of the times, but it succeeded in telling a story about outsiders.
The book is incredibly comprehensive (if a little overlong) and gives you an intimate background on how movies were made then.
