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World Film Locations: Prague (Paperback)
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World Film Locations: Prague (Paperback)
Series: World Film Locations
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Prague - known as 'The City of Dreams', 'The Hundred-Spired City'
and, most significantly for this study, 'Hollywood of the East' -
has played an important role in the history of the seventh art. The
Czech capital often functions as an onscreen surrogate for other
major European cities such as London, Paris, Venice, Vienna and
Zurich. In exploring the intersection of the city and cinema, World
Film Locations: Prague traverses the Czech capital's topography,
legendary sites and landmarks as they appear on screen - including
Charles Bridge, Old Town, Mala Strana, Wenceslas Square, the
Vlatava River and Prague Castle - in an internationally diverse
range of exemplary films set there, such as The Student of Prague,
the first feature-length horror film; the controversial Ecstasy,
starring Hedy Lamarr before she became a Hollywood star; Czech New
Wave films including Closely Observed Trains; Czech New Wave auteur
Milos Forman's critically acclaimed Amadeus; Steven Soderbergh's
Kafka; and action/adventure productions Mission Impossible, The
Bourne Identity, Casino Royale and The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen, among others. Along with an historical overview of
Prague in film, lengthier essays by leading film scholars and
professors consider Prague's iconic Barrandov Studios as well as
the impact of World War II, the Cold War and the Prague Spring.
This collection, an invaluable resource for the study of cinematic
psychogeography, will be of great interest to students, scholars
and aficionados of East-Central European film as well as literary,
cultural and sociopolitical history.
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