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 quartiers usually tucked away from the tourist's admiring gaze. Handsomely illustrated with full-color film stills and contemporary location photographs, 46 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, cinema-verite, the literary works of the Left Bank Group, and Luc Besson's slickly stylized cinema du look. Meanwhile, essays foreground contributions from Francophone African directors and...

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