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11%OFFR. Barton Palmer - Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place - 9780813564081 - V9780813564081
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Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place

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Description for Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place Paperback. .
In the early days of filmmaking, before many of Hollywood’s elaborate sets and soundstages had been built, it was common for movies to be shot on location. Decades later, Hollywood filmmakers rediscovered the practice of using real locations and documentary footage in their narrative features. Why did this happen? What caused this sudden change?
 
Renowned film scholar R. Barton Palmer answers this question in Shot on Location by exploring the historical, ideological, economic, and technological developments that led Hollywood to head back outside in order to capture footage of real places. His groundbreaking research reveals that wartime ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Techniques of the Moving Image
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813564081
SKU
V9780813564081
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About R. Barton Palmer
R. BARTON PALMER is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and the director of film studies at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. He is the author or editor of more than thirty-five books, including Larger than Life: Movie Stars of the 1950s (with Murray Pomerance), “A Little Solitaire”: John Frankenheimer and American Film (with Murray Pomerance), and Thinking in ... Read more

Reviews for Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place
“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 ... Read more

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