Series: World Film Locations

Fifty synopses of film scenes alongside insightful location essays and evocative full-colour film stills. This is an engaging and highly visual citywide tour of well- and lesser-known films shot on location in the birthplace of cinema and screen spectacle. The heart of Hollywood's star-studded film industry for more than a century, Los Angeles and its abundant and ever-changing locales—from the...

World Film Locations: Berlin is elegantly designed and packed with evocative film stills, location info, and maps. It is both affordable and collectable. This volume includes more than 50 scene-specific reviews and short essays, exploring the roles of construction sites, film music, and key personalities such as Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl. It features contributions from experts specialising in German...

World Film Locations: Madrid is a visually engaging journey through the history of one of the most cinematic cities in the world. The book includes short synopses of 44 scenes from films that illustrate the changing ways in which the city of Madrid has appeared on screen in a variety of genres by an eclectic range of directors. Complimenting these...

This book is elegantly designed and packed with evocative film stills, location info, and maps. It is affordable and collectible. It includes scene-specific reviews and short essays about directors, themes, and locations covering everything from sporting dramas to representations of outlaw Ned Kelly. It presents a diverse mix of contributors including film reviewers, university lecturers, journalists, and filmmakers. Tracing cinematic...

The capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia, Sydney has been represented onscreen since the earliest days of cinema. An eclectic combination of tough inner-city suburbs, beachside communities, and green outlying exurbs, Sydney offers many intriguing possibilities to filmmakers. The tensions and differences found among its many multicultural inhabitants, poorer and wealthier suburbs, and central...

This book is elegantly designed and packed with evocative film stills, location info, and maps. It is affordable and collectable. It is the only edited and illustrated volume on Vancouver film. It offers a glimpse behind-the-scenes into how Hollywood and independent filmmakers have framed and featured Vancouver locations. It has broad appeal, focusing on underground and Hollywood titles. The book...

Barcelona is one of the world’s most beautiful cities. A permanent showcase of the work of acclaimed architect Antoni Gaudí, it also has a long and rich cinematic legacy. Great directors from all over the world—among them Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar, and Michelangelo Antonioni—have set their films there. World Film Locations: Barcelona is the first book of its kind to...

World Film Locations: Glasgow explores Scotland's biggest city and the many locations in which its films are viewed, set, and shot, taking in the important moments and movements in its rich cinematic history. Contrasting the historic with the contemporary, and social realism with drama, World Film Locations: Glasgow seeks to discover the city's culture, character, and comedy. Essays cover a...

World Film Locations: Helsinki is elegantly designed and packed with evocative film stills, location info, and maps. It is both affordable and collectable. This is the first English language book on the cinematic Helsinki, providing an accessible look at the historical scope of representing the city. It addresses the multiple ways it is depicted in contemporary cinema. The book works...

World Film Locations: Reykjavík is elegantly designed and packed with evocative film stills, location info, and maps. It is both affordable and collectable. Included within are scene-specific reviews and short essays covering topics such as youth culture, crime, music, and the 2008 banking crisis. The book features a diverse mix of contributors focusing on a country that produces more films...