WORLD FILM LOCATIONS: LOS ANGELES : VOLUME 2

World Film Locations: Los Angeles (World Film Locations, 2) Paperback – December 18, 2024 by Gabriel Solomons (Editor), Fabrice Ziolkowski (Editor), Jared Cowan (Editor) Fifty synopses of film scenes alongside insightful location essays and evocative full-color film stills.   This is an engaging and highly visual citywide tour of well- and lesser-known films shot on location in the birthplace of cinema and screen spectacle. The heart of Hollywood’s star-studded film industry for more than a century, Los Angeles and its abundant and ever-changing locales—from the Santa Monica Pier to the infamous and now-defunct Ambassador Hotel—have set the scene for a wide variety of cinematic treasures, from Touch of Evil to Chinatown, They Live! to the coming-of-age classic Boyz n the Hood.   With its meandering and beautifully fractured topography, Los Angeles continues to lure filmmakers into its clutches, affording an endless panoply of locations to prop up both character and story. This second