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World Film Locations: Marseilles

World Film Locations: Marseilles

Marcelline Block

(2013)

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Abstract

Marseilles, France’s oldest city, has a significant cinematic culture, dating back to the 1890s when the Lumière brothers shot many films there. Due to its prolific film industry in the 1920s, Marseilles was referred to as ‘the French Los Angeles’. World Film Locations: Marseilles features maps of film scenes, high quality screengrabs, and images of movie locations as they appear today, accompanied by original texts penned by leading international film scholars and critics. Essays treat Marcel Pagnol’s classic trilogy, firmly ensconced within the French collective unconscious; cinematic adaptations of the Marseillais novelist Jean-Claude Izzo; onscreen appearances of the Old Port and the Canebière, and immigrants in Marseilles films. Scene reviews are selected from 46 films, including œuvres by acclaimed directors such as Jacques Audiard, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Luc Besson’s Taxi franchise, Bertrand Blier, Richard Curtis, Jacques Demy, Jean Epstein, John Frankenheimer, William Friedkin, Jean-Luc Godard, Norman Jewison, Joshua Logan, Jean-Pierre Melville, Lázló Moholy-Nagy, Manoel de Oliveira, Jean Renoir, Ridley Scott, and Berlin School auteur Angela Schanelac.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
FrontCover FC
Title 1
Copyright 2
Contents 3
Maps/Scenes 3
Scenes 1-8 1923 - 1950 10
Scenes 9-16 1955 - 1971 30
Scenes 17-24 1974 - 1995 50
Scenes 25-32 1997 - 2002 70
Scenes 33-39 2002 - 2006 90
Scenes 40-46 2007 - 2011 108
Essays 3
Marseilles: City of the Imagination 6
Marcel Pagnol’s Marseilles: Marius, Fanny, César 8
The Old Port and The Canebière 28
‘The Underworld is in His Lands’: Marseilles Gangster Films 48
Cinematic Adaptations of Jean-Claude Izzo’s Marseilles Novels 68
Marseilles Melting Pot: Immigrants, Refugees and Stateless characters 88
Robert Guédiguian and Ariane Ascaride: In Conversation 106
Backpages 3
Resources 124
Contributor Bios 125
Filmography 128
BackCover BC