Böcker i World Film Locations-serien

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. This book also includes a selection of six spotlight essays that look at key directors, themes, and significant periods from Madrid's rich filmic history.

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, this book seeks to discover the city's culture, character and comedy through its cinematic identity.

Extensively illustrated with maps, film stills and present-day location photos, World Film Locations: Venice provides both a colourful guide to, and an incisive examination of, the floating city on film.

World Film Locations: Vancouver offers insight into how the city functions as the fourth largest film and television production center in North America. This book provides new perspectives on the relationship between the movies and the metropolis, using analyses of different film scenes and spotlight essays to highlight Canadian filmmaking.

Cinematic representations of Helsinki range from depictions of a northern periphery to a space of cosmopolitanism, from a touristic destination to a substitute for Moscow/St Petersburg during the Cold War. This volume on Europe's northernmost capital, Helsinki, explores the relationship between the city and cinema and Finnish cultural history.

Marseilles, France's oldest city, has a significant cinematic culture, dating back to the 1890s when Lumiere brothers shot many films there. This book features maps of film scenes, high quality screengrabs, and images of movie locations as they appear today, accompanied by original texts penned by leading international film scholars and critics.

The rapid development of Hong Kong has occasioned the demolition of buildings and landscapes of historic significance, but film acts as a repository for memories of these lost places, vanished vistas, and material objects. This book offers a glimpse into the history of film production practices in Hong Kong.