World Film Locations: Los Angeles: Volume 2 by Gabriel Solomons Paperback Book

Description: World Film Locations: Los Angeles by Gabriel Solomons, Fabrice Ziolkowski, Jared Cowan 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. Col. illus. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Fifty synopses of film scenes alongside insightful location essays and evocative full-color film stills. This is an engaging and highly visual citywide tour of well- and lesser-known films shot on location in the birthplace of cinema and screen spectacle. The heart of Hollywoods 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 Touch of Evil to Chinatown, They Live! to the coming-of-age classic Boyz n the Hood. With its meandering and beautifully fractured topography, Los Angeles continues to lure filmmakers into its clutches, affording an endless panoply of locations to prop up both character and story. This second volume of World Film Locations: Los Angeles expands the careful curation of the first volume to further reveal both the famed and hidden parts of a city in constant flux. Since the first volumes publication in 2011, thousands of new productions have made the most of what the city has to offer, using, reusing, and uncovering places that will surely become sites of pilgrimage in years to come. 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. The book demonstrates how motion pictures have contributed to the multifarious role of the city in our collective consciousness and underscores how key cinematic moments reveal aspects of its life and culture that are otherwise largely hidden from view. Further, the book features city maps with information on how to locate key sites and photographs that show locations as they appear now. A guided tour of the City of Angels conducted by the likes of John Cassavetes, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Emerald Fennell, and John Carpenter, this concise volume reveals how Los Angeles captured the imaginations of filmmakers and audiences worldwide. Author Biography 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. Table of Contents Maps/Scenes - 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) EssaysRobert Altmans LA: The City of Fallen Angels – Fabrice ZiolkowskiFringe Benefits: The Spaces and Places of the LA Avant-Garde – David E. JamesThe Happiest Place on Earth: Disneyland and the Cinematic Experience – Alberto Zambenedetti(Dis)Tasteful Appearances: The Architecture of Seduction in Twilight – Peter SchulmanKerb Crawlers: Nobody Walks in LA – Thomas M. Puhr Hollywoods Backyard: The San Fernando Valley Onscreen – Andrew NockLApocalypse: Los Angeles, The City We Love to Destroy – Fabrice Zilkowski Review 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 ReportA must-read for cinephiles and history buffs, World Film Locations: Los Angeles explores LAs 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 LAs filmic landscape – as much movie reference as history book. To truly understand LA, start with its movies. -- François Audouy, Production Designer of Ford v Ferrari, Logan and Ghostbusters: AfterlifeScouting 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. Ive experienced this over and over again … from Back To The Future Part II to The Fabelmans. And I think its 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 AvatarI enjoyed this book tremendously and am thinking that its 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 Im tempted to go and check out the locations in person! -- Robert Schulenberg, Production Designer of Eating Raoul and Not for PublicationWorld 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 cinephiles 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 CanFar 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 Didions deceptively simple prose, this beautifully edited book gets to the heart of what makes Los Angeles such a special place: its inherent visual messiness; its 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 HustleLike walking into the frame, World Film Locations: Los Angeles is a perfect tour guide through film history and the hallowed grounds of the citys 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 Details ISBN1835950299 Author Jared Cowan Series World Film Locations Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781835950296 Format Paperback Imprint Intellect Books Subtitle Volume 2 Place of Publication Bristol Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781835950319 Edited by Jared Cowan Illustrations Halftones, color Audience General ISBN-10 1835950299 Pages 136 Publisher Intellect DEWEY 791.430979494 Publication Date 2024-11-04 UK Release Date 2024-11-04 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168389419;

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