World Film Locations: Los Angeles Volume 2 is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and the 'screen spectacle'. It pairs 50 synopses of carefully chosen film scenes with evocative full-colour film stills.
When the World Film Locations series was launched in 2011, with volumes on Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Tokyo, the world was a different place. Although interest in film locations has grown steadily for years as people seek to walk in the footsteps of their cinematic idols by visiting sites from their favorite movies - the recent global lockdown seems to have only increased an appetite for cinetourism; prompting us to consider a second volume for one of the world's most evocative and enduring locations. The city of Los Angeles, with its meandering sun-baked sweep and beautifully fractured topography, continues to lure filmmakers into its clutches - affording an endless panoply of locations to prop up both character and story. Since 2011, thousands of new productions have made the most of what the city has to offer; using, reusing and discovering places that will surely become sites of pilgrimage in years to come - and while this volume includes just 50 of them, our modest selection is carefully curated to compliment volume 1 and further reveal both the well-known and more hidden parts of a Los Angeles in constant flux.
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 Santa Monica Pier to the infamous and now-defunct Ambassador Hotel - have set the scene for a wide variety of cinematic treasures, from Chinatown to Forrest Gump, Falling Down to the coming-of-age classic Boyz n The Hood.
This second volume marks an engaging citywide tour of the many films shot on location in this birthplace of cinema and the screen spectacle. World Film Locations: Los Angeles Vol 2 pairs fifty incisive synopses of carefully chosen film scenes - both famous and lesser-known - with an accompanying array of evocative full-colour film stills, demonstrating how motion pictures have contributed to the multifarious role of the city in our collective consciousness, as well as how key cinematic moments reveal aspects of its life and culture that are otherwise largely hidden from view.
Insightful essays and interviews throughout turn the spotlight on the important directors, iconic locations, thematic elements and historical periods that provide insight into Los Angeles and its vibrant cinematic culture. Rounding out this information are city maps with information on how to locate key features, as well as photographs showing featured locations as they appear now.
A guided tour of the City of Angels conducted by the likes of John Cassavetes, Robert Altman, Nicholas Ray, Michael Mann and Roman Polanski, World Film Locations: Los Angeles Vol 2 is a concise and user-friendly guide to how Los Angeles has captured the imaginations of both filmmakers and those of us sitting transfixed in theatres worldwide.
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'There are lots of books that take you behind the scenes in Hollywood. This is a book that takes you to the scenes themselves, those rare places where fantasy and reality exist at the same time.'
'Film locations exist in a magical dimension at the intersection of fantasy and reality. This is the definitive guidebook to that twilight zone. The authors take you to famous sites from which you can simultaneously see today, yesterday, and the world you visit when you enter the movies that were filmed in these locations.'
'A brilliant guidebook to an archipelago of sites that exists at the intersection of fantasy and reality.' -- Gary Goldman, Screenwriter of Total Recall and Minority Report 'A must-read for cinephiles and history buffs, World Film Locations: Los Angeles explores LA's iconic and obscure film locations, revealing the symbiotic relationship between the city and its politics, people, and culture. This book is an enlightening and provocative journey through LA's filmic landscape - as much movie reference as history book. To truly understand LA, start with its movies.' -- Francois Audouy, Production Designer of Ford v Ferrari, Logan and Ghostbusters: Afterlife 'Scouting for movie locations in LA is like casting a speaking part, especially when some places actually seem to want to audition to "become" a place in the production. I've experienced this over and over again ... from Back To The Future Part II to The Fabelmans. And I think it's this spirit of the wide variety and deep cinematic quality of so many places in and around LA that this book evokes so magnificently.' -- Rick Carter, production designer of Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump and Avatar 'I enjoyed this book tremendously and am thinking that it's much more than a mere book of movie locations but could be a text to accompany a class in motion picture appreciation! The knowledgeable comments that accompany the films are helpful and the illustrations from the films are a unique addition.'
'Now I'm tempted to go and check out the locations in person!' -- Robert Schulenberg, Production Designer of Eating Raoul and Not for Publication 'World Film Locations: Los Angeles, Volume 2 is a comprehensive and engaging guide that takes readers on a captivating journey through the iconic film settings of Los Angeles, whether it be a contemporary studio blockbuster, cult classic, a true independent, or a film from the Golden Age of Hollywood.'
'Beautifully illustrated with photographs that juxtapose famous movie scenes with present day views of the locations, this book promises to inform and inspire, making it an essential edition to any cinephile's library and anyone who is a craftsman in the art of film making.'
'Having spent over 30 years in the film business in Los Angeles , I still get a thrill when I walk into a location where a great movie was filmed.'
'Bravo to the editors and all the contributors that brought this book to life.' -- Clay A. Griffith, Production Designer of Dolemite Is My Name, We Bought a Zoo and Lucky You "'Los Angeles plays itself" in this book, revealing something about who and what it is to the world through films that are actually set in Los Angeles, not just shot in Los Angeles. In these pages you will discover places you have never visited and films you have never seen, even if you have lived in the city your entire life. You will learn something about lost Los Angeles, noir Los Angeles, iconic Los Angeles, as well as obscure Los Angeles.'
'The carefully selected locales and films featured in this book bring the reader to a new understanding: the unsung heroes of filmed Los Angeles are the talented location scouts and designers whose job it has always been to function as the secular shamans of the film industry, the intermediaries between the physical built environment and the narrative spirit and meaning of the story. It is this creative work that the editors and contributors of World Film Locations: Los Angeles, Volume 2 have explored, interpreted, distilled and revealed.' -- Jeannine Oppewall, Production Designer of L.A. Confidential, Pleasantville and Catch Me If Can 'Far from being a book on filmcraft, World Film Locations: Los Angeles, Volume 2 pays poetic and loving tribute to its complicated subject. We are shown the city in all of its diversity, well beyond the couple of dozen locations that are often used over and over again. Like Joan Didion's deceptively simple prose, this beautifully edited book gets to the heart of what makes Los Angeles such a special place: it's inherent visual messiness; it's short but tumultuous architectural history, and its role as the setting for some unforgettable cinema. I had been feeling a little jaded about shooting in LA, but this book restored my love for this visually unique city, in all its filth and glory.' -- Judy Becker, Production Designer of Brokeback Mountain, Hitchcock and American Hustle 'Like walking into the frame, World Film Locations: Los Angeles is a perfect tour guide through film history and the hallowed grounds of the city's movie locations. Visit where Spicoli went to high school, Kelly Leak hit his home runs, the Karate Kid met Mr. Miyagi, and Orson Welles constructed the opening shot to Touch of Evil.' -- Grant Moninger, Artistic Director, American Cinematheque
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Höhe: 228 mm
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978-1-83595-029-6 (9781835950296)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Gabriel Solomons is a practicing graphic designer and senior lecturer at the Bristol School of Art & Design, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He is chief editor of The Big Picture, a magazine that explores film in a wider context and writes extensively on film, design, material culture and architecture for a range of international publications.
Jared Cowan is a contributing writer and photographer for various Los Angeles-based publications including Los Angeles Magazine, L.A. Weekly and L.A. TACO. He has also worked in cinema as a camera operator and Director of Photography.
Fabrice Ziolkowski is a professional screenwriter and filmmaker whose writing credits include the 2010 Oscar-nominated feature The Secret of Kells.
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- Scenes 1-8
(1916 - 1979)
- Scenes 9-16
(1980 - 1984)
- Scenes 25-32
(1990 - 2002)
- Scenes 33-41
(2010 - 2015)
- Scenes 42-50
(2016 - 2023)
Essays
Robert Altman's LA: The City of Fallen Angels - Fabrice Ziolkowski
Fringe Benefits: The Spaces and Places of the LA Avant-Garde - David E. James
The Happiest Place on Earth: Disneyland and the Cinematic Experience - Alberto Zambenedetti
(Dis)Tasteful Appearances: The Architecture of Seduction in Twilight - Peter Schulman
Kerb Crawlers: Nobody Walks in LA - Thomas M. Puhr
Hollywood's Backyard: The San Fernando Valley Onscreen - Andrew Nock
LApocalypse: Los Angeles, The City We Love to Destroy - Fabrice Zilkowski
