Following up on last year's Brookings (?) report on the reversal of suburbanization, here is a piece from the Gawker with links to other reports on demographic changes occuring in cities and suburbs.

http://gawker.com/5816205/old-people-are-clogging-up-the-suburbs

Short piece on John Conn's photographs of NYC subway from early 1980s in Daily Beast:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2009/06/10/john-conn-s-new-york-subway-photos.html

See also: Bruce Davidson, Martha Cooper, Jamel Shabazz

Introduction could use The Out-of-Towners and Little Murders, two films which demonstrate external and internal views of the city at the beginning of the 1970s.

Contemporary interview with Gordon Willis in The Boston Globe by Mark Feeny January 14 2007. Conrad Hall calls Willis "The Prince of Darkness."

Chapter 1 should focus more on Klute and the status of noir in the early 1970s. Quote Naremore on the problems and possibilities of colorized noir. Note Straw's account of the mulitplicity of noir-like tags: film-blanc, film-gris, etc. Straw's development of tabloid crime aesthetic based on true crime digest covers that feature place-less b&w crime scenes in broad daylight (as opposed to hi-contrast, or Wee Gee-like crime scenes) could be drawn into parallel with "figures in windows" aesthetic. Perhaps also verite could be mentioned here as THE b&w moving image of the 1960s. Color would be associated with technicolor/H-wood artifice. Also ref. opening essay to recent Neo-Noir anthology.

Excellent post about NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER at Obscure One-Sheet:


http://knifeinthehead.blogspot.com/2011/05/not-so-obscure-tv-spot-but-still-mia-on.html

Also, can't forget about Homebodies by Larry Yust (who also did Trick Baby), from 1974.

LIFE magazine. Loft Living.

http://books.google.com/books?id=hFAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA2-PA61&dq=behind+these+grubby+facades+lurks+an+artists'+colony+life+magazine&cd=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

"People who flock to cities looking for jobs and more interesting lives will flock back again if jobs and more interesting lives are to be found where they came from. It has been suggested that, with modern systems of communication, the America of the future may be simply a network of small towns. But should we not say Walden Twos? A few skeletons of cities may survive, like the bones of dinosaurs in museums, as the remains of a passing phase in the evolution of a way of life."
- B.F. Skinner, Walden Two (introduction)