World Film Locations: San Francisco
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (790 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1783200286 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mark Phillips said A Terrific Book for Movie Lovers and Lovers of San Francisco. What a great combo, terrific films set in this unbelievably visually magnificent city.This collection provides a great quick guide to the best of the films and the great locations.It's fun, informative, accessible, and easily portable.And it's a bargain.Highly recommended.. Terry K said Superficial. Interesting as a quick read, but I was expecting more from the reviews I had read. Maybe I'm too familiar with the locations and many of the movies, but I didn't feel like it was new. The scenes covered are very limited and I think people would be interested in finding out where some of the other locations in those movies are -- many are far from the location of the previous scene and that's part of the fun of discovering them.. S. Tom Baker said For San Francisco movie buffs. I gave this as a Christmas gift but have not had any feedback as yet. He is a movie buff and lives in San Francisco, so I anticipate a positive report.
This book is the ideal escape to the city by the bay for arm chair travelers and cinephiles alike.. An extraordinarily beautiful city that has been celebrated, criticized, 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
“San Francisco is the latest addition to this excellent series of urban guides. A great guide to the celluloid city.". Scott Jordan Harris has selected 46 films with scenes in this beautiful city of streetcars, fogs and possibly the most famous bridge in the world, which was of course partially destroyed by the giant radioactive cephalopod in It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)