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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A tremendously important advance in our understanding of landscape, cityscape, and place in postwar American cinema, among the most innovative current work in film and media studies, American studies, English literature, and cultural geography.” -- Mark Shiel * author of Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles *
"A well-documented, clearly written study that enhances understanding of an important trend that still resonates today… Recommended." * Choice *
"Like the tenacious investigators of the post-war semi-documentaries he analyzes (among many other genres and films), Palmer delivers a probing, conceptually sophisticated, multi-faceted, sensitively written account of Hollywood’s return to location shooting. A major achievement that overturns the historical consensus." -- Matthew Bernstein * author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent *
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Shot on Location provides clear evidence that Hollywood's approach to location shooting was in many ways influenced by Europe both in the philosophy of the filmmakers and in the strategies through which the footage was used to add a sense of authenticity....
Shot on Location is a worthy contribution to film history, as it furthers the connections between disparate but exciting facets of film history." * The Velvet Light Trap *
“A tremendously important advance in our understanding of landscape, cityscape, and place in postwar American cinema, among the most innovative current work in film and media studies, American studies, English literature, and cultural geography.” -- Mark Shiel * author of Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles *
"A well-documented, clearly written study that enhances understanding of an important trend that still resonates today… Recommended." * Choice *
"Like the tenacious investigators of the post-war semi-documentaries he analyzes (among many other genres and films), Palmer delivers a probing, conceptually sophisticated, multi-faceted, sensitively written account of Hollywood’s return to location shooting. A major achievement that overturns the historical consensus." -- Matthew Bernstein * author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent *
"
Shot on Location provides clear evidence that Hollywood's approach to location shooting was in many ways influenced by Europe both in the philosophy of the filmmakers and in the strategies through which the footage was used to add a sense of authenticity....
Shot on Location is a worthy contribution to film history, as it furthers the connections between disparate but exciting facets of film history." * The Velvet Light Trap *
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Real History, Real Cinema
1. Filming the Transitory World We Live In
2. The Postwar Turn toward the Real
3. Of Backdrops and Place:
The Searchers and
Sunset Blvd. 4. An American Neorealism?
5. Noir on Location
6.
Ramparts We Watch: Legacies
Conclusion: Authentic Banality
Notes
Index
