Postwar location shooting, the semi-documentary, and dark passage -- The cine-tourist city : from Cinerama to The Lineup and Vertigo -- "Sick Tales of a Healthy Land" : Blake Edwards in San Francisco -- Countercultural capital : Hollywood chases The Summer of Love -- The Manhatt…
Analyzing major films set in San Francisco, Gleich demonstrates that the city is a physical environment used to stage urban fantasies that reveal far more about Hollywood filmmaking and American culture than they do about San Francisco
"One of the country's most picturesque cities and conveniently located just a few hours' drive from Hollywood, San Francisco became the most frequently and extensively filmed American city beyond the production hubs of Los Angeles and New York in the three decades after World Wa…
