{"product_id":"world-film-locations-vancouver-9781841507217","title":"World Film Locations: Vancouver","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt has broad appeal, focusing on underground and Hollywood titles. The book provides an accessible look at the historical scope of representing the city and addresses the multiple ways it is depicted in contemporary cinema. It works both as a guidebook for tourists and a critical intervention for academics studying the cinematic city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt features a diverse mix of contributors, including leading scholars and film critics. \u003cem\u003eWorld Film Locations: Vancouver\u003c\/em\u003e highlights the work of Canadian filmmakers who have received less attention than they merit, whilst bringing insight into how so-called 'runaway' productions from Hollywood use Vancouver to stand in for other locations, from Seattle, USA to Lagos, Nigeria.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnalyses of 38 different film scenes reveal the cinematic city in its myriad forms, while spotlight essays provide insight into the creativity and contradictions of Vancouver's film industry throughout the ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe essays examine various topics: the masking of Vancouver's indigenous stories in filmic representations of the city; Australian screenwriter James Clavell's Vancouver-set debut \u003cem\u003eThe Sweet and the Bitter\u003c\/em\u003e; Sylvia Spring's \u003cem\u003eMadeleine Is...\u003c\/em\u003e, the first female-directed feature in Canada; Jonathan Kaplan's \u003cem\u003eThe Accused\u003c\/em\u003e, for which Jodie Foster won an Oscar; and the use of Vancouver locations in a number of US television crime series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorld Film Locations: Vancouver\u003c\/em\u003e offers new perspectives on the west coast city and, in doing so, sheds further light upon the relationship between the movies and the metropolis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464787935468,"sku":"9781841507217","price":53.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781841507217-world-film-locations-vancouver.jpg?v=1775055065","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/world-film-locations-vancouver-9781841507217","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}