World Film Locations: Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World Film Locations: Rome write by Gabriel Solomons. This book was released on 2014-01-01. World Film Locations: Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rome is a city rich in history and culture and imbued with a realism and romanticism that has captured the imaginations of filmmakers throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With over two and a half thousand years of continuing history, Rome has served as the setting for countless memorable films, creating a backdrop that spans all genres and emotions. World Film Locations: Rome takes the reader on a cinematic journey through the city with stops at key locations that include the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Via Veneto, Piazza del Popolo, Sant’Angelo Bridge and, of course, the Trevi Fountain, made famous world-wide in its appearances in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Jean Negulesco’s Three Coins in the Fountain. A carefully selected compilation of forty-five key films set in Rome, including The Belly of an Architect, The Facts of Murder, The Bicycle Thief, Roman Holiday and The Great Beauty, is complemented by essays that further examine the relationship between the city and cinema to provide an engaging, colourful and insightful page-turning journey for both travellers and film buffs alike.
Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2
Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2 write by Ben Goldsmith. This book was released on 2015-04-01. Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first instalment of Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand, this volume continues the exploration of the cinema produced in Australia and New Zealand since the beginning of the twentieth century. Among the additions to this volume are in-depth treatments of the locations that feature prominently in the countries’ cinema. Essays by leading critics and film scholars consider the significance of the outback and the beach in films, which are evoked as a liminal space in Long Weekend and a symbol of death in Heaven’s Burning, among other films. Other contributions turn the spotlight on previously unexplored genres and key filmmakers, including Jane Campion, Rolf de Heer, Charles Chauvel and Gillian Armstrong. Accompanying the critical essays in this volume are more than one hundred and fifty new film reviews, complemented by film stills and significantly expanded references for further study. From The Piano to Crocodile Dundee, Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2 completes this comprehensive treatment of a consistently fascinating national cinema.
World Film Locations: Florence
World Film Locations: Florence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World Film Locations: Florence write by Alberto Zambenedetti. This book was released on 2014-09-15. World Film Locations: Florence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Florence, with its rich history, privileged place in the canon of Western art, and long-standing relationship with the moving image, is a cinematic city equal to Venice or Rome. World Film Locations: Florence explores the city as it is manifested in the minds of filmmakers and filmgoers. Contributors to the collection consider a wide range of topics, including the tourist’s perception of Florence, representations of art and artists on screen, the camera-friendly Tuscan countryside and mouthwatering local cuisine and filmic adaptations of canonical Italian literature. Through scene reviews of films, including Bobby Deerfield, A Room with a View, Tea with Mussolini and Under the Tuscan Sun, World Film Locations: Florence delves deeper into the makeup of the city, looking at both familiar and unfamiliar locations through the lens of such filmmakers as Roberto Rossellini, Mario Monicelli, Brian DePalma and Ridley Scott.
World Film Locations
World Film Locations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World Film Locations write by Alberto Zambenedetti. This book was released on 2014. World Film Locations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Florence, with its rich history, privileged place in the canon of Western art, and long-standing relationship with the moving image, is a cinematic city equal to Venice or Rome. World Film Locations: Florence explores the city as it is manifested in the minds of filmmakers and filmgoers.
World Film Locations: Malta
World Film Locations: Malta - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World Film Locations: Malta write by Jean Pierre Borg. This book was released on 2015-12-01. World Film Locations: Malta available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Malta has served as a beautiful backdrop for films for nearly as long as there has been a film industry. This entry in the World Film Locations series traces the history of Malta on screen, from bigbudget blockbusters to modest indie pictures. The locations Malta offers range widely, from grand fortified harbours and stunning cliffs to quaint villages and Baroque palaces. That diversity has enabled the island to double for countless locations, including ancient Troy and Alexandria, as well as Greece, Israel, and other Mediterranean and Middle Eastern regions, while its well-known water tanks have proved to be perfect for shooting ocean scenes. Packed with illustrations, World Film Locations: Malta examines a number of films made in Malta, and will be a must-read for tourists, film buffs and scholars alike.
