World Film Locations: Reykjavík

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 per capita than any other in the world.

The creative community of Reykjavík, Iceland, enjoys a well-deserved reputation for its unique artistic output—most notably the popular music from the city since the 1980s. However, Reykjavík's filmmakers have received less attention. World Film Locations: Reykjavík corrects this imbalance by shedding new light on the role of cinema in Iceland.

Contributors trace Icelandic cinema from the 1979 establishment of the Icelandic Film Fund—before which the country's film industry barely existed—through to today. In a series of illuminating scene reviews, they show how rapidly the city has changed over the past thirty years.

Thematic spotlight articles explore topics such as the relationship between Iceland and its capital city, youth culture and nightlife, the relationship between film and the local music community, cinematic representations of Scandinavian crime, and filmmakers' responses to the 2008 banking crisis.

Together, these varied contributions illustrate how films shot in Reykjavík have been shaped by both Iceland's remoteness from the rest of the world and by Icelandic filmmakers' perception that the city is perpetually on the brink of desolate and harsh wilderness.