On Location: The Film Fan's Guide to Britain and Ireland

Book by Pendreigh, Brian

This educational and well-researched overview of film locations in the British Isles is presented with exceptional style. Award-winning journalist Pendreigh (cinema editor for the Scotsman) focuses each chapter upon a specific locale?London, southeast England, Scotland, Dublin, Wales, etc.?and includes a representative list of films shot in each region. (The list is often surprising. For example, the 1989 hit Batman, presumably the tale of a futuristic New York gone bad, was actually shot in southeast England.) Individual film entries contain descriptive information on plot, characters, actors, staff, background details, and physical surroundings. Pendreigh's perceptive critical commentaries and charming "insider" anecdotes are both literate and smoothly integrated into the text. Beautiful black-and-white photographs, a carefully prepared index, and a useful popular bibliography complement the work. Circulating libraries with a special interest in cinema will find this extremely appealing.?Carol J. Binkowski, Bloomfield, N.J.
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