World Film Locations: Barcelona Thomas M. Duffy

World Film Locations: Barcelona Thomas M. DuffyBarcelona is one of the worlds most beautiful cities. A permanent showcase of the work of acclaimed architect Antoni Gaud, it also has a long and rich cinematic legacy. Great directors from all over the world among them Woody Allen, Pedro Almodvar and Michelangelo Antonioni have set their films there. World Film Locations: Barcelona is the first book of its kind to explore the rich cinematic history of this seductive Catalonian city. The illuminating

Leaving behind its image as all freeways and suburbs

active agent

Drawing on contributions from practicing artists

ranging from established scholars such as Dr

as are its mountains

and–after transferring ownership–is pulled away by invisible hands

Mette-Marie Zacher Sørensen

Browning examines how different film directors have interpreted and translated the original literary texts into a new medium

this book seeks to discover the city’s culture

performance modelling and profiling

urban design

as well as a critique of local histories of visuality