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sábado, 30 de julio de 2022

#books #architecture #film | Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film / edited by Susan Larson

Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film / edited by Susan Larson.
Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, 2021.
xiii, 320 p. : il.

/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – España / Cine – Decorados / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781789384895
Cita APA-7: Larson, Susan (ed.) (2021). Architecture and the urban in spanish film. Intellect.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 ARC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1257551403

[.en] This will be the first edited collection in English on urban space and architecture in Spanish popular film since 1898. Building on existing film and urban histories, this innovative volume will examine Spanish film through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality and mass culture from the industrial through to the digital age.

‘Architecture and Urbanism in Spanish Film’ brings together the innovative scholarship of an international and interdisciplinary group of film, architecture and urban studies scholars thinking through the reciprocal relationship between the seventh art and the built environment. Some of the shared concerns that emerge from this volume include the ways cinema as a new technology reshaped how cities and buildings are built and inhabited since the early twentieth century; the question of the mobile gaze; film's role in the shifting relationship between the private and the public; film and everyday life; monumentality and the construction of historical memory for a variety of viewing publics; the impact of the digital and the virtual on filmmaking and spectatorship.

Primary readership will be those researching, teaching and studying Spanish film, international film studies, urban cultural studies, cultural studies, and architects who are interested in interdisciplinary endeavours.


📎 Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film
Jorge Gorostiza | Arquitectura + Cine + Ciudad, 2022-05-19

http://cinearquitecturaciudad.blogspot.com/2022/05/architecture-and-urban-in-spanish-film.html

Hace un par de días llegó a mi casa ‘Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film’, un libro publicado el año pasado por Intellect, y aunque ya lo había recibido para descargarlo, no quería escribir sobre él hasta tenerlo en mis manos.

Este libro, como indica su título, recoge una serie de artículos sobre la arquitectura y lo urbano en el cine español, y no se hubiera editado sin el esfuerzo titánico de la doctora Susan Larson, que lo ideó y se ocupó de coordinarlo minuciosamente.

Un libro colectivo que recoge textos de autores españoles y estadounidenses, la mayoría de ellos profesores en universidades como las de Arizona, Northern Illinois, Texas Tech, Valencia, Valladolid, Virginia, Warwick, Washington Seattle y las madrileñas Camilo José Cela, Complutense, Politécnica y San Pablo CEU.

Con investigadores de procedencias tan variadas, no es extraño que los artículos, dentro del tema general, se ocupen de asuntos innovadores muy diferentes entre sí y abarcando un arco temporal muy amplio, y para comprobarlo, basta leer el índice del libro:

  • INTRODUCCIÓN
  • «Architecture, the Urban and the Critical Possibilities of Spanish Film Studies», Susan Larson
  • PART 1: ARCHITECTURE AND THE URBAN
  • 1. «Architecture, Urbanistic Ideology and the Poetic- Analytic Documentary Mode in Mercado de futuros (2011) by Mercedes Álvarez», Benjamin Fraser
  • 2. «Establishing Shots as Urban Blueprints in Spanish Feature Films», Jorge Gorostiza
  • PART 2: MOBILITY
  • 3. «The Rhythm of the Modern City: Traffic and Mobility in Spanish Film,1896– 1936», Nuria Rodríguez- Martín
  • 4. «Childhood Spectacle, Modernity and Madrid as a Dystopic City: Luis Lucia’s Cerca de la ciudad (1952)», David Foshee
  • 5. «Elevators and the Poetics of Vertical Mobility in Spanish Film», Tom Whittaker
  • PART 3: SURFACE TENSIONS
  • 6. «An Archi-Texture of Pleasure: The Verbena, the Modistilla and the Mantón de Manila in Rosa de Madrid (1927)», Juli Highfill
  • 7. «Surface Tension and Utopian Underworlds: Orpheus and the Executioner in Luis García Berlanga’s El verdugo (1963)», Patricia Keller
  • PART 4: THE EVERYDAY
  • 8. «Mediating Everyday Life: Domestic Architecture in Spanish Film», Josefina González Cubero y Alba Zarza Arribas
  • 9. «Through the Looking Glass: Images of the Ordinary World in Oscar- Nominated Spanish Cinema», Emeterio Diez Puertas y María de Arana Aroca
  • PART 5: MEMORY AND THE MONUMENTAL
  • 10. «Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film El inquilino (1957)?», Susan Larson y Carlos Sambricio
  • 11. «Madrid 1964: Icon of Modernity or City of Memory? A Look at the ‘Details’», Vicente Sánchez- Biosca
  • 12. «Making Madrid Plastic: Waste and Space in Pedro Almodóvar’s Post- movida Films», Samuel Amago
  • PART 6: THE VIRTUAL
  • 13. «Uncanny Urbanism and Generational Shifts in Carlos Marques Marcet’s 10.000 km and Anchor and Hope», Leigh Mercer
  • 14. «Dead to Capitalism: Zombified Territory and Junkie Spaces in Cabanyal Z, or How to Unleash Monstrous Creativity in the Urban», Stephen Luis Vilaseca

En la cubierta del libro aparece la fotografía de Emilio Ruiz del Río dentro de una maqueta que afortunadamente se conserva en la Filmoteca Española, y que construyó para la película Operación Ogro, sujetando el Dodge Dart en el que iba Carrero Blanco; hace varios años Emilio me contó que toda la maqueta estaba hecha a la misma escala que los automóviles de juguete, que compró para ponerlos en las calles. Me alegra que la doctora Larson escogiera esa foto que además es un homenaje a un gran profesional cinematográfico y una estupenda persona.

Mi artículo, como antes se mencionaba, se titula «Establishing Shots as Urban Blueprints in Spanish Feature Films», fue el primero que escribí sobre el tema de la ciudad en los inicios de las películas españolas, un asunto que surgió a raíz de una conferencia impartida en Fotograma 018 organizada por el GIRAC de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Valladolid, titulada «Planos de situación: Ciudades en principios de películas», que generó posteriormente otro artículo titulado: «Desde el cielo y en descenso hasta el monumento: Ciudades en principios de películas», publicado en 2019 en el número 40 de la revista mexicana Bitácora Arquitectura, que ya se comentó aquí, y por último por ahora el texto «La ciudad desde el aire en las pantallas. Espectador y transeúnte», editado en el número 19 de la revista Quintana y también comentado aquí; al haberse publicado después de los dos anteriores, al leerlo ahora no se puede comprobar la evolución de la investigación, pero a pesar de ello, como otras veces, por si pudiera interesarle a alguien, copio su principio, en "versión española":

En español se denomina “plano de situación” al primer plano que se incluye en todos los proyectos de arquitectura, en la mayoría de los de ingeniería y en los planes urbanísticos, en este plano se indica dónde estará situada la edificación que se va a construir o reformar, o la zona que se va a planificar, y su escala permite que se muestre casi toda la ciudad o al menos una amplia zona de la misma. Hay una relación directa entre este término arquitectónico y el cinematográfico ya que en español también se denomina “plano de situación” al plano con el que se inician las películas y que habitualmente es un plano general con amplias vistas de la ciudad donde se va a desarrollar el argumento.

Hasta aquí el fragmento, si desean seguir leyéndolo junto con los otros, les aconsejo que compren ‘Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film’, y mejor en una librería como, por ejemplo, ‘8½’ en Madrid.

sábado, 10 de octubre de 2020

#libros #cine #ciudades | Madrid en el cine de Pedro Almodóvar

Madrid en el cine de Pedro Almodóvar / Gloria Camarero.
Madrid: Akal, 2019 / 3ª ed. act.
148 p.

/ ES / Libros / Arquitectura en el cine / Cine / Cine – Escenarios / Ciudades en el cine / Madrid / Pedro Almodóvar

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9788446048206

🔒 Ed. digital: E-ISBN 9788446049722
Cita APA-7: Camarero, Gloria (2020). Madrid en el cine de Pedro Almodóvar. Ediciones Akal.
ehuBiblioteka Acceso personal UPV/EHU
eLibro

https://elibro-net.ehu.idm.oclc.org/es/lc/ehu/titulos/130100

[.es] Pedro Almodóvar ha filmado la mayoría de sus películas en Madrid o, mejor dicho, en los muchos Madrid que hay en Madrid, y así lo ha reconocido: «Siempre he encontrado en esta urbe un paisaje perfecto y una fauna incorrecta para cada una de mis películas». Es la ciudad a la que llegó en 1966, cuando aún no había cumplido los diez y siete años, y, a pesar de estar inmersa en plena dictadura franquista, para él representaba los deseados valores de la cultura y la libertad personal. Su relación cinematográfica con la capital resulta casi autobiográfica. En todos sus trabajos, envuelve a los protagonistas. Sus calles, plazas, barrios, cafés, edificaciones, restaurantes, bares de copas u otro tipo de establecimiento configuran arquetipos. Sobrepasan el concepto de meros escenarios para participar en la trama como un personaje más. Este libro ofrece al lector una serie de itinerarios –físicos y conceptuales– que no sólo le permitirán conocer el Madrid que, desde edificios emblemáticos hasta modestos barrios de la periferia, protagoniza sus películas, sino descubrir el modo en que la ciudad se ha convertido en eje vertebral de una cinematografía que no se puede entender sin su presencia. La presente edición, actualizada, incluye su última película ‘Dolor y gloria’.

lunes, 24 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : Sydney

World film locations : Sydney / edited by Neil Mitchell.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2015.
Serie: World Film Locations.

/ EN / Libros / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Sydney

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781783203628
Cita APA-7: Mitchell, Neil (2015). World film locations: Sydney. Intellect Books. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127649049

[.en] 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 business district and beaches are reflected, exaggerated, and critiqued in memorable movies such as ‘The Last Wave’, ‘Puberty Blues’, ‘Strictly Ballroom’ and ‘Little Fish’, among many others. Sydney is a city where sun, sports and surf rub shoulders with crime, racial tensions and class divides.

The contributors to this collection take readers on a virtual tour of Sydney, from Kings Cross, the city’s red light district and frequent film location, to the famous beaches, to explore how representations in movies have both played into and influenced how we think of these spaces and those that frequent them. Essays also consider the experimental film group UBU Films, who shot shorts and features in and around Sydney’s inner city suburbs during the 1960s and early 1970s, and the Sydney Opera House, one of the world’s most recognizable landmarks, and its role in movies both Australian and international.

Packed with full-colour photographs, this is the first book of its kind to deal specifically with Sydney and film. It will find a grateful audience among film lovers, casual viewers, tourists and film historians.

domingo, 23 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : Shanghai

World film locations : Shanghai / edited by John Berra and Wei Ju.
Bristol : Intellect, 2014.
128 p.: il.
Serie: World Film Locations.

/ EN / Libros / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Shanghai 

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781783201990
Cita APA-7: Berra, John & Ju, Wei (2014). World film locations: Shanghai. Intellect. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
 https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127649019

[.en] ‘World Film Locations: Shanghai’ celebrates Shanghai’s rich cinematic history, covering films from the 1930s to 2013. With essays that reflect the city’s relationship to film and scene reviews of iconic titles, this book shows the cosmopolitan glamour through locations steeped in cinematic exoticism while also probing the reality behind the image.

Celebrating Shanghai’s rich cinematic history, the films covered here represent a lengthy time period, from the first Golden Age of Chinese Cinema in the 1930s to the city’s status as an international production hub in 2013. Given the enduring status of Shanghai as the 'Paris of the East’, ‘World Film Locations: Shanghai’ emphasizes the city’s cosmopolitan glamour through locations that are steeped in cinematic exoticism, while also probing the reality behind the image by investigating its backstreets and residential zones. To facilitate this study of Shanghai’s dual identity through reference to film locations, the book includes films from both the commercial and independent sectors, with a balance between images captured by local filmmakers and the visions of Western directors who have also utilized the city for their projects. With numerous essays that reflect Shanghai’s relationship to film and scene reviews of such iconic titles as ‘Street Angel’, ‘Temptress Moon’, ‘Kung Fu Hustle’, and ‘Skyfall’, ‘World Film Locations: Shanghai’ is essential reading for all scholars of China’s urban culture.

sábado, 22 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : Vancouver

World film locations : Vancouver / edited by Rachel Walls.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2013.
112 p. : il.

Serie: World Film Locations.
/ EN / Libros / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Vancouver 

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 978184150721
 Cita APA-7: Walls, Rachel (2013). World film locations: Vancouver. Intellect Books.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127649204

[.en] ‘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. 

‘World Film Locations: Vancouver’ highlights the work of such 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. Analyses 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. The essays examine the following topics: the masking of Vancouver’s indigenous stories in filmic representations of the city; Australian screenwriter James Clavell’s Vancouver-set debut The Sweet and the Bitter; Sylvia Spring’s Madeleine Is..., the first female-directed feature in Canada; Jonathan Kaplan’s The Accused, for which Jodie Foster won an Oscar; and, the use of Vancouver locations in a number of US television crime series. ‘World Film Locations: Vancouver’ offers new perspectives on the west coast city and in doing so sheds further light upon the relationship between the movies and the metropolis.

viernes, 21 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : Toronto

World film locations : Toronto / edited by Tom Ue.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2014.
128 p. : il.
Serie: World Film Locations.

/ EN / Libros / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Toronto

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781783201952  
Cita APA-7: Ue, Tom. (2014). World film locations: Toronto. Intellect Books. 
Biblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127649110

[.en] Toronto is a changing city that has been a source of reflection and inspiration to writers and artists whose work focuses on the conditions and prospects of human life. A city on the move, it demands policies and regulation, and it offers the pleasures and perils of the massive and the anonymous. As a site of study, the city is inherently multidisciplinary, with natural ties to history, geography, sociology, architecture, art history, literature and many other fields. 

‘World Film Locations: Toronto’ explores and reveals the relationship between the city and cinema using a predominately visual approach. The juxtaposition of the images used in combination with insightful essays helps to demonstrate the role that the city has played in a number of hit films, including ‘Cinderella Man’, ‘American Psycho’ and ‘X-Men’ and encourages the reader to frame an understanding of Toronto and the world around us. The contributors trace Toronto’s emergence as an international city and demonstrate the narrative interests that it has continued to inspire among filmmakers, both Canadian and international. 

With support from experts in Canadian studies, the book’s selection of films successfully shows the many facets of Toronto and also provides insider’s access to a number of sites that are often left out of scholarship on Toronto in films, such as the Toronto International Film Festival. The 2014 release of this attractive volume will be a particularly welcome addition to the international celebrations of the city’s 180th anniversary.

jueves, 20 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : Los Angeles

World film locations : Los Angeles / edited by Gabriel Solomons.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2011.
136 p. : il.
Serie: World Film Locations.

/ EN / Libros / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Los Angeles

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781841504858
Cita APA-7: Solomons, Gabriel (2011). World film locations: Los Angeles. Intellect Books. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127648882

[.en] 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 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’ 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 throughout turn the spotlight on the important directors, 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 Robert Altman, Nicholas Ray, Michael Mann and Roman Polanski, ‘World Film Locations: Los Angeles’ 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.

miércoles, 19 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : San Francisco

World film locations : San Francisco / edited by Scott Jordan Harris.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2013.
128 p. : il.
Serie: World Film Locations.

/ EN / Libros / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / San Francisco

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781783200283
Cita APA-7: Harris, Scott Jordan (2013). World film locations: San Francisco. Intellect Books. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127579650

[.en] An extraordinarily beautiful city that has been celebrated, criticised and studied in many films, San Francisco is both fragile and robust, at once a site of devastation caused by 1906 earthquake but also a symbol of indomitability in its effort to rebuild afterwards. Its beauty, both natural and manmade, has provided filmmakers with an iconic backdrop since the 1890s, and this guidebook offers an exciting tour through the film scenes and film locations that have made San Francisco irresistible to audiences and auteurs alike. 

Gathering more than forty short pieces on specific scenes from San Franciscan films, this book includes essays on topics that dominate the history of filmmaking in the city, from depictions of the Golden Gate Bridge, to the movies of Alfred Hitchcock, to the car chases that seem to be mandatory features of any thriller shot there. Some of America’s most famous movies – from Steven Spielberg’s ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ to Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ to Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry – are celebrated alongside smaller movies and documentaries, such as ‘The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill’, to paint a complete picture of San Francisco in film. A range of expert contributors, including several members of the San Francisco Film Critics Circle, discuss a range of films from many genres and decades, from nineteenth-century silents to twentieth-century blockbusters.

Audiences across the world, as well as many of the world’s greatest film directors – including Buster Keaton, Orson Welles, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, David Fincher and Steven Soderbergh – have been seduced by San Francisco. This book is the ideal escape to the city by the bay for arm chair travellers and cinephiles alike.

martes, 18 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : Chicago

World film locations : Chicago / edited by Scott Jordan Harris.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2013.
128 p. : il.
Serie: World Film Locations.

/ EN / Libros / Chicago / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine 

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781841507187
Cita APA-7: Harris, Scott Jordan (2013). World film locations. Chicago. Intellect Books. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127648534

[.en] While some call it the Second City, Chicago is no stranger to the silver screen. Director Christopher Nolan transformed Chicago into the darkly foreboding Gotham City for The Dark Knight . Ferris Bueller rode a parade float down Dearborn and made stops during his epic day off at a host of landmarks, from Buckingham Fountain to Wrigley Field. Everyone’s favourite foul-mouthed blues act ended their film’s climactic chase by taking the Bluesmobile through the plate-glass windows of the Richard J. Daley Center. With ‘World Film Locations: Chicago’, critic Scott Jordan Harris takes readers on a cinematic tour of the city, featuring modern blockbusters and beloved classics. Along the way, scenes from almost fifty films made or set in the city are discussed, accompanied by full-colour stills and interspersed with essays examining the city’s unique character onscreen. Among the contributors are Gordon Quinn, cofounder of Chicago’s Kartemquim Films; Elizabeth Weitzman, film critic for the New York Daily News; the BBC’s Samira Ahmed; and Steve James, director of the coming-of-age classic Hoop Dreams. For readers hoping to locate landmarks from favourite films, the book also includes detailed maps that point out key scenes. A fun and fact-packed read, World Film Locations: Chicago will be welcomed by film fans and anyone planning a trip to the Windy City.

lunes, 17 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : Boston

World film locations : Boston / edited by Marcelline Block.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2014.
128 p. : il.
Serie: World Film Locations.

/ EN / Libros / Boston / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine /

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781783201983
Cita APA-7: Block, Marcelline (2014). World film locations: Boston. Intellect Books. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127648498

[.en] Boston has a rich tradition of cinematic representation. This book considers the full spectrum of Boston's abundant aesthetic potential, looking in depth into forty-six films that were filmed on location in the city. Presented at the intersection of critical analysis and visual critique, the films are accompanied by articles and film scene reviews.

Founded by the Puritans in 1630 and the site of many of the American Revolution’s major precursors and events (including the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere’s midnight ride, among others), Boston has played – and continues to play – an influential role in the shaping of the historic, intellectual, cultural and political landscapes of the United States. And Boston has a significantly rich tradition of cinematic representation. While Harvard is central to many of the films set in the Greater Boston area, ‘World Film Locations: Boston’ considers the full spectrum of Boston’s abundant aesthetic potential, reviewing films located within as well as far beyond Harvard’s hallowed halls and ivy-covered gates. Many iconic American classics, blockbusters, romantic comedies and legal thrillers, as well as films examining Boston’s criminal under-side, particularly in juxtaposition to the city’s elitist high society, were filmed on location in the city’s streets and back lots. ‘World Film Locations: Boston’ looks in depth into a highly select group of forty-six films such as ‘Love Story’, ‘Good Will Hunting’, ‘The Friends of Eddy Coyle’, and ‘The Social Network’, among many others, presented at the intersection of critical analysis and stunning visual critique (with material from the films themselves as well as photographs of the contemporary city locations). Featuring articles and film scene reviews written by a variety of leading contemporary film writers, critics and scholars, this book is a multimedia resource that will find a welcome audience in movie lovers in Beantown and beyond.

domingo, 16 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : New York

World film locations : New York / edited by Scott Jordan Harris.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2011.
126 p. : il.
Serie: World Film Locations.

/ EN / Libros / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Nueva York 

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781841504827
Cita APA-7: Harris, Scott Jordan (2011). World film locations: New York. Intellect Books. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127648751

[.en] Presenting a varied and thought-provoking collage of the city onscreen – from the silent era to the present – ‘World Film Locations: New York’ provides a fascinating and historic look back at the rich diversity of locations that have provided the backdrop for some of the most memorable films. 

Be they period films, cult classics or elaborate directorial love letters, New York City has played – and continues to play – a central role in the imaginations of filmmakers and moviegoers worldwide. The stomping grounds of King Kong, it is also the place where young Jakie Rabinowitz of ‘The Jazz Singer’ realizes his Broadway dream. Later, it is the backdrop against which taxi driver Travis Bickle exacts a grisly revenge. 

The inaugural volume in an exciting new series from Intellect, ‘World Film Locations: New York’ pairs incisive profiles of quintessential New York filmmakers –among them Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet and Spike Lee– with essays on key features of the city’s landscape that have appeared on the big screen, from the docks to Coney Island, Times Square to the Statue of Liberty. More than forty-five location-specific scenes from films made and set in New York are separately considered and illustrated with screen shots and photographs of the locations as they appear now. For film fans keen to follow the cinematic trail either physically or in the imagination, this pocket-sized guide also includes city maps with information on how to locate key features.

sábado, 15 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : Venice

World film locations : Venice / edited by Michael Pigott.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2013.
127 p. : il.
Serie: World Film Locations.

/ EN / Libros / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Venecia

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781841507200
Cita APA-7: Pigott, Michael (2013). World film locations: Venice. Intellect Books. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127649191

[.en] 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. This book explores the rich history of films that have used Venice as evocative backdrop and integral character. Few cities are as densely packed with picturesque cinematic locations. Extensively illustrated with maps, film stills and present-day location photos, this book provides both a colourful guide to, and an incisive examination of, Venice on film. It contains insightful film entries describing carefully chosen scenes from each film, as well as six thematic essays, written by an impressive international selection of film critics, academics and Venice experts. The grand and familiar tourist spots take on new significances, and the book highlights less well-known spots beyond the tourist trail, including gondola repair yards and legendary, but well-hidden, restaurants. From one of the earliest mobile shots in film history – a voyage up the Grand Canal shot in 1896 – to classic depictions of the city like Summertime , Death in Venice , and Don’t Look Now , as well as recent big budget productions such as The Tourist , this book spans the history of filmmaking in Venice.

viernes, 14 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : Prague

World film locations : Prague / edited by Marcelline Block.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2013.
128 p. : il.
Serie: World Film Locations.

/ EN / Libros / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Praga 

📘 ISBN 9781783200276
Cita APA-7: Block, Marcelline (2013). World film locations: Prague. Intellect Books.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127580076

[.en] Prague, the 'Hollywood of the East', has played an important role in the history of cinema and ‘World Film Locations: Prague’ traverses the city’s topography to examine an internationally diverse range of movies made in the Czech capital: landmark early films such as Ecstasy, controversial due to the female nudity that catapulted Hedy Lamarr into stardom in the United States; Steven Soderbergh’s biopic ‘Kafka’, starring Jeremy Irons; adaptations of Kafka’s literary works such as ‘The Trial’, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter and starring Anthony Hopkins; and action blockbusters like ‘Mission Impossible’, ‘The Bourne Identity’ and ‘Casino Royale’. Exploring legendary Prague landmarks as they appear onscreen—including the Charles Bridge, Old Town, Malà Strana, Liechtenstein Palace, Wenceslas Square and Prague Castle – the book also discusses the intersection of the capital city and its cinematic representations; Prague and the Czech New Wave; the iconic Barrandov Studios; and the impact of political events such as the Prague Spring, the Soviet Invasion of 1968 and the Velvet Revolution on the city’s film industry. An invaluable resource for scholars, students and aficionados of film and cinematic psychogeography, this collection will be heralded by students of East European literary, cultural and sociopolitical history.

jueves, 13 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : Berlin

World film locations : Berlin / edited by Susan Ingram.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2012.
128 p. : il.
Serie: World Film Locations.

EN / Libros / Berlin / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en la cin

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781841506319
Cita APA-7: Ingram, Susan (2012). World film locations: Berlin. Intellect Books. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127648491

[.en] One of the most dynamic capital cities of the twenty-first century, Berlin also has one of the most tumultuous modern histories. A city that came of age, in many senses, with the cinema, it has been captured on film during periods of exuberance, devastation, division and reconstruction. ‘World Film Locations: Berlin’ offers a broad overview of these varied cinematic representations.

Covering an array of films that ranges from early classics to contemporary star vehicles, this volume features detailed analyses of 46 key scenes from productions shot on location across the city as well as spotlight essays in which contributors with expertise in German studies, urban history and film studies focus on issues central to understanding Berlin film, such as rubble, construction sites and music, and controversial film personalities from Berlin, such as Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl. With the help of full-colour illustrations that include film stills and contemporary location shots, ‘World Film Locations: Berlin’ cinematically maps the city’s long twentieth century, taking readers behind the scenes and shedding new light on the connections between many favourite and possibly soon-to-be-favourite films.

miércoles, 12 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : Helsinki

World film locations : Helsinki / edited by Pietari Kääpä and Silja Laine.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2013.
111 p. : il.

/ En / Libros / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Helsinki 

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781841507224
Cita APA-7: Kääpä, Pietari & Laine, Silja (2013). World film locations: Helsinki. Intellect Books. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127648868

[.es] ‘World Film Locations: Helsinki’ explores the relationship between the city, cinema, and Finnish cultural history. 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 and St. Petersburg during the Cold War.

Part of Intellect’s World Film Locations series, ‘World Film Locations: Helsinki’ explores the relationship between the city, cinema and Finnish cultural history. 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 and St. Petersburg during the Cold War. The city also looks different depending on one’s perspective, and World Film Locations: Helsinki illustrates this complexity by providing a visual collection of cinematic views of Helsinki. This cinematic city is a collective work where individual pieces construct a whole, and one which we, as viewers, then shape according to our perspectives. The contributors emphasize the role of the city in identity and cultural politics throughout Finnish film history and its central role as the locus for negotiating Finland’s globalization.

martes, 11 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : Glasgow

World film locations : Glasgow / edited by Nicola Balkind.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2013.
112 p. : il.
Serie: World Film Locations.

/ EN / Libros / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Glasgo

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781841507194
Cita APA-7: Balkind, Nicola (2013). World film locations: Glasgow. Intellect Books. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127648506

[.en] ‘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. 

‘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. Essays cover a variety of topics including a background of Glasgow’s cinema-goers and picture houses, the evolution of Scots comedy, and the role of the city as inspiration for grassroots and underground filmmakers, as well as big Hollywood productions. Thirty-eight films are featured, from classics like Forsyth’s Gregory’s Girl and Loach’s Carla’s Song to cult hits like Boyle’s Trainspotting . Bollywood is also represented, alongside European titles and grim Scots realism like Sweet Sixteen , My Name is Joe , and Red Road , and new titles including Fast Romance , Perfect Sense , and NEDs , making this an essential guide to Scotland in film.

lunes, 10 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : Liverpool

World film locations : Liverpool / edited by Jez Conolly and Caroline Whelan.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2013.
128 p. : il.
Serie: World Film Locations.
ISBN 9781783200269

/ EN / Libros / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Liverpool

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781783200269
Cita APA-7: Conolly, Jez & Whelan, Caroline (2013). World film locations: Liverpool. Intellect Books.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127579995

[.en] Outside of London, no other British city has attracted more film-makers than Liverpool. Sometimes standing in for other cities or acting as a version of its own past, Liverpool is an adaptable filmic backdrop. From the earliest makers of moving images – among them the Lumière brothers – Liverpool has endured as a cinematic destination for years. 

Outside of the capital London, no other British city has attracted more film-makers than Liverpool. Sometimes standing in for London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Rome or Moscow, and sometimes playing itself – or a version of its own past in Beatles biopics – Liverpool is an adaptable filmic backdrop that has attracted film-makers to its ports for decades. A place of passion, humour and pride, Liverpool evokes caverns and cathedrals, ferries and football grounds; it is a city so vivid we see it clearly even if we’ve never been there. From the earliest makers of moving images – among them the Mitchell & Kenyon film company, the Lumière brothers and pioneering early cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene – who preserved the city, the river, the docks, the streets and the people, Liverpool has endured as a cinematic destination. This collection celebrates that survival instinct and will be welcomed by enthusiasts of British cities, films and culture.

domingo, 9 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : London

World film locations : London / edited by Neil Mitchell.
Bristol : Intellect, 2011.
136 p. : il.
Serie: World Film Locations

/ EN / Libros / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Londres

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781841504841 
Cita APA-7: Mitchell, Neil (ed.) (2011). World film locations: London. Intellect. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/931623521

[.en] From ‘Terror on the Underground to Thames Tales’ to Richard Curtis's affectionate portrayal of the city in ‘Love Actually’, this user-friendly guide explores the diversity and distinctiveness of films shot in location in London.

An exciting and visually focused tour of the diverse range of films shot on location in London, ‘World Film Locations: London’ presents contributions spanning the Victorian era, the swinging ’60s and the politically charged atmosphere following the 2005 subway bombings. Essays exploring key directors, themes and historical periods are complemented by reviews of important scenes that offer particular insight into London's relationship to cinema. The book is illustrated throughout with full-colour film stills and photographs of cinematic landmarks as they appear now – as well as city maps to aid those keen to investigate them.

sábado, 8 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : Marseilles

World film locations : Marseilles / edited by Marcelline Block.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2013.
128 p.: il.
Serie: World Film Locations

/ EN / Libros / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Marsella 

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 978184150723
Cita APA-7: Block, Marceline (2013). World film locations: Marseilles. Intellect Books.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127648531


[.en] ‘World Film Locations: Marseilles’ examines the representations of this port city in cinema, through essays and film scene reviews devoted to an exploration of its topography as depicted by Jean Epstein, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean Renoir, Jean-Jacques Beineix, and many others. ‘World Film Locations: Marseilles’ 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 and an interview with Marseillais director Robert Guédiguian.

As France’s oldest city, Marseilles has a significant cinematic culture, dating back to the 1890s when the Lumière brothers shot many films there. Due to its prolific film industry in the 1920s, Marseilles was referred to as 'the French Los Angeles'. This volume showcases Marseilles’s diversity as articulated onscreen: from the winding streets of the Panier to the Old Port’s noisy markets, from the bustling Canebière to the dockyards of the Grand Port Maritime, from the cliffs of Provençal encircling the city to sun-drenched calanques leading to the dazzling cerulean sea. Marseilles, France’s oldest city, has a significant cinematic culture, dating back to the 1890s when the Lumière brothers shot many films there. Due to its prolific film industry in the 1920s, Marseilles was referred to as ‘the French Los Angeles’. World Film Locations: Marseilles 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. Essays treat Marcel Pagnol’s classic trilogy, firmly ensconced within the French collective unconscious; cinematic adaptations of the Marseillais novelist Jean-Claude Izzo; onscreen appearances of the Old Port and the Canebière, and immigrants in Marseilles films. Scene reviews are selected from 46 films, including œuvres by acclaimed directors such as Jacques Audiard, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Luc Besson’s Taxi franchise, Bertrand Blier, Richard Curtis, Jacques Demy, Jean Epstein, John Frankenheimer, William Friedkin, Jean-Luc Godard, Norman Jewison, Joshua Logan, Jean-Pierre Melville, Lázló Moholy-Nagy, Manoel de Oliveira, Jean Renoir, Ridley Scott, and Berlin School auteur Angela Schanelac.

viernes, 7 de agosto de 2020

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : Paris

World film locations : Paris / edited by Marcelline Block.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2011.
128 p. : il. 

Serie: World Film Locations
/ EN / Libros / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Paris 

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781841505619
Cita APA-7: Block, M. (2011). World film locations: Paris. Intellect Books. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127580007

[.en] ‘World Film Locations: Paris’ takes readers on an unforgettable tour of the City of Lights past and present through the many films that have been set there. Along the way, we revisit iconic tourist sites from the Eiffel Tower – whose stairs and crossbars inspired more than one famous chase scene – to the Moulin Rouge overlooking the famously seedy Place Pigalle. Other films explore lesser-known quarters usually tucked away from the tourist’s admiring gaze. Handsomely illustrated with full-colour film stills and contemporary photographs, more than fifty scenes are individually considered with special attention to their use of Paris’s topography as it intersects with characters, narrative and plot. A host of important genres and cinematic movements are featured, including poetic realism, the New Wave, cinéma-verité, the literary works of the Left Bank Group, and Luc Besson’s slickly stylised cinéma du look. Meanwhile, essays foreground contributions from Francophone African directors and émigré filmmakers.