Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Real History, Real Cinema
1. Filming the Transitory World We Live In
2. The Postwar Turn toward the Real
3. Of Backdrops and Place: The Searchers and Sunset Blvd.
4. An American Neorealism?
5. Noir on Location
6. Ramparts We Watch: Legacies
Conclusion: Authentic Banality
Notes
Index

About the Author

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 the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice with Murray Pomerance (all by Rutgers University Press).

Reviews

“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.”
*author of Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles*

"A well-documented, clearly written study that enhances understanding of an important trend that still resonates today… Recommended."
*Choice*

"Like the tenacious investigators of the post-war semi-documentaries he analyzes (among many other genres and films), Palmer delivers a probing, conceptually sophisticated, multi-faceted, sensitively written account of Hollywood’s return to location shooting. A major achievement that overturns the historical consensus."
*author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent*

"Shot on Location provides clear evidence that Hollywood's approach to location shooting was in many ways influenced by Europe both in the philosophy of the filmmakers and in the strategies through which the footage was used to add a sense of authenticity....Shot on Location is a worthy contribution to film history, as it furthers the connections between disparate but exciting facets of film history."
*The Velvet Light Trap*

“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.”
*author of Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles*

"A well-documented, clearly written study that enhances understanding of an important trend that still resonates today… Recommended."
*Choice*

"Like the tenacious investigators of the post-war semi-documentaries he analyzes (among many other genres and films), Palmer delivers a probing, conceptually sophisticated, multi-faceted, sensitively written account of Hollywood’s return to location shooting. A major achievement that overturns the historical consensus."
*author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent*

"Shot on Location provides clear evidence that Hollywood's approach to location shooting was in many ways influenced by Europe both in the philosophy of the filmmakers and in the strategies through which the footage was used to add a sense of authenticity....Shot on Location is a worthy contribution to film history, as it furthers the connections between disparate but exciting facets of film history."
*The Velvet Light Trap*