World Film Locations: Washington D.C.

World Film Locations: Washington D.C.World Film Locations: Washington, D. C., collects essays and articles about Washington film history and locations. Featuring explorations of carefully chosen film scenes and key historical periods, the book examines themes, directors and depictions and is illustrated with evocative movie stills, city maps and location photographs. Taken as a whole, this is essential reading for any cinephile who has ever wondered how a bill becomes a law.

And the book concludes by calling the very mode of 'military chic' into ethical question

the following questions emerge:

the practice of drawing

with costume dramas set in the age of Napoleon

in Europe and Latin America

the science of fictions and the fictions of science

looking at the tensions between celebrity activism and ground-level work and the relationship between celebrity philanthropy and cultural citizenship

World Film Locations: Marseilles features maps of film scenes

fashion and music

Mumbai is a megalopolis of dramatic diversity and heartbreaking extremes

using public sphere theories to examine relations between counterpublics and social change

and how do urban spaces make use of cinema