{"product_id":"hollywood-in-san-francisco-joshua-gleich-9781477316450","title":"Hollywood in San Francisco: Location Shooting and the Aesthetics of Urban Decline","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne 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 War II. During those years, the cinematic image of the city morphed from the dreamy beauty of \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e to the nightmarish wasteland of \u003ci\u003eDirty Harry\u003c\/i\u003e, although San Francisco itself experienced no such decline. This intriguing disconnect gives impetus to \u003ci\u003eHollywood in San Francisco\u003c\/i\u003e, the most comprehensive study to date of Hollywood's move from studio to location production in the postwar era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this thirty-year history of feature filmmaking in San Francisco, Joshua Gleich tracks a sea change in Hollywood production practices, as location shooting overtook studio-based filming as the dominant production method by the early 1970s. He shows how this transformation intersected with a precipitous decline in public perceptions of the American city, to which filmmakers responded by developing a stark, realist aesthetic that suited America's growing urban pessimism and superseded a fidelity to local realities. Analyzing major films set in San Francisco, ranging from \u003ci\u003eDark Passage\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Towering Inferno\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBullitt\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the TV show \u003ci\u003eThe Streets of San Francisco\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Gleich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477316450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477316450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Joshua Gleich","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013942882559,"sku":"9781477316450","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c30fcab1-1ebf-4c43-b5dd-c74f53251347.jpg?v=1767745741","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hollywood-in-san-francisco-joshua-gleich-9781477316450","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}