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    • the first maps >
      • Some Maps in Gance's Napoléon
  • Paris
    • 1890s-1909 >
      • firemen in Paris, 1896
      • La Villette c.1896-97
      • Hatot-Breteau 1897
      • Place de l'Opéra
      • Paris 1900
      • French Cancan >
        • the real Paquerette >
          • Paquerettes
      • Alice Guy - Paris locations >
        • Alice Guy in the brothel ...
      • a dangerous street corner
      • Capellani in Paris
      • La Fille du faux-monnayeur
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      • a gateway out of Paris c.1910
      • L'Enfant de Paris (narrative of an identification)
      • Fantomas Over Paris: episode 1 >
        • Fantomas Over Paris: episode 2 >
          • Fantomas Over Paris: episode 3 >
            • Fantomas Over Paris: episode 4 >
              • Fantomas Over Belgium
      • One Place, Three Films: Fantomas and the French New Wave
      • a staircase in Belleville
      • Vampires Over Paris >
        • Les Vampires 1
        • Les Vampires 2
        • Les Vampires 3
        • Les Vampires 4
        • Les Vampires 5
        • Les Vampires 6
        • Les Vampires, 7
        • Les Vampires 8
        • Les Vampires 9
        • Les Vampires 10
      • Irma Vep posts a letter
      • Inside-Outside: space and light in Judex
      • L'Affaire Barsac
      • neon Paris c.1913
      • electric nights in Paris (and Berlin)
    • 1930-1959 >
      • Quai des Orfèvres
      • Olivia - Audry - 1951
      • Paris Noir: Becker, Dassin, Melville
      • the persistence of graffiti: Paris c.1952
      • Du rififi chez les hommes - reading topotropically >
        • Du rififi chez les hommes - locations identified
      • Het Parijs van Le Ballon rouge
    • the New Wave and after >
      • New Wave places >
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          • New Wave Newness: architecture in Paris
          • Eric Rohmer in the rue de la Huchette, c.1956
          • Les 400 coups: Paris locations >
            • Baisers volés
          • 'New York Herald Tribune' - Parrish and Godard on the rue de Berri >
            • A bout de souffle (narrative of an identification)
          • the Grisbi connection: Chabrol and Becker
          • Les Bonnes Femmes: sequence by sequence
          • Une femme est une femme: the places documented
          • the boulevard des Italiens
          • Jules et Jim: Paris configured
          • the place of cinema: cinema as location in Vivre sa vie
          • Godard and Melville: the view from the rue Jenner >
            • Melville: more views from the rue Jenner
          • the New Wave in Pigalle c.1963
          • La Peau douce - displaced places
          • Le Bonheur 1965
          • Paris vu par
          • Masculin Féminin
          • The Topography of La Guerre est finie
        • France
      • Le Samourai: places and maps >
        • Un flic: art and artifice
      • Bresson in Paris - Pickpocket
      • Bresson 69-71
      • Every Revolution
      • statues in Godard and Duras
      • Holy Motors >
        • Holy Motors - notes
    • banlieues >
      • Le Canal de Ourcq
      • Ville d'Avray en 1903
      • Three filmmakers in Romainville
      • filmmaking in the Fontainebleau forest
      • Feuillade's lonely villas
      • anarchists in the suburbs c.1912
      • One Church Two Cemeteries: Clouzot and Chabrol at Montfort L'Amaury
      • Feuilladian Franju - Les Yeux sans visage
      • country houses and suburban villas
      • banlieue locations in L'Amour existe
      • the Landru Villa
      • 1 place 2 filmmakers: Rivette & Chabrol in Ermenonville
      • Céline et Julie: what's the address of that house?
      • cinemas in La Petite Voleuse
    • The Stairs: Paris
  • London
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      • Lumiere London >
        • Lumière London, bis
      • Robert Paul in London: tour guide and film maker
      • Ultus in Isleworth
      • Cocaine 1922
      • Fu Manchu 1923
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      • Piccadilly Circus >
        • Piccadilly Circus in films
        • Piccadilly Circus in art
        • Piccadilly Circus in postcards
        • Piccadilly Circus photographed
        • Piccadilly Circus: invisible things
      • Muswell Hill
      • the Arsenal Stadium mysteries
      • Brentford streets on screen
    • the locality of London studios >
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      • straight out of Whetstone
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      • some Baker Street irregularities
      • an American Sherlock in London
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        • Rififi in London
        • London in London River
      • maps in krimis
      • Kriminal (1966)
      • Kaurismaki's London c. 1989
    • places in Face
  • Geneva
    • Swiss New Wave - shared-world practice
    • Geneva in Swiss New Wave films >
      • SNW Geneva: collective housing
      • SNW Geneva: villas
      • SNW Geneva: bowlings + piscines
    • The Chronology of Le Petit Soldat
    • La Lune avec les dents (Michel Soutter 1966)
    • L'Inconnu de Shandigor (J.-L. Roy 1967)
  • signage, etc.
  • studios, etc.
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        • when Harry met Max, and where
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      • Bébé victime d'une erreur...
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      • Pathé filmmaking in Nice c. 1908
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        • Sans toit ni loi - the 12 tracking shots
        • Mona's postcard collection
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      • Alice Guy + JLG
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    • Jacques Rivette >
      • a map of Out 1
      • Le Pont du Nord: locations identified >
        • topographical telescoping in Le Pont du Nord
        • Le Pont du Nord (narrative of an identification)
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      • Godardiana
      • A bout de souffle: footnotes to the film >
        • A bout de souffle - the cast list
        • A bout de souffle in colour
      • photographs in Le Petit Soldat
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      • Paintings in Pierrot le fou
      • sculptures in Made in USA
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      • Pierre Alechinsky in Le Joli Mai (1963)
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    • place-time in Thérèse Raquin
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      • 10 photographs by Brassaï in 3 Paris dancehalls >
        • painters in the rue Blomet
      • Gisèle Freund in Paris >
        • Gisèle Freund in Histoire(s) du cinéma
      • Godard's Histoire(s): photographs of women
      • the photographer as photographer: André Dino with Tati, Truffaut and Chabrol
      • some Simenon book covers
      • films playing at the Moulin Rouge
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      • a building site and some buildings, c.1961 >
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        • 93 - Seine Saint Denis: Aubervilliers to Bondy
        • 93 - Seine Saint Denis: Drancy to l'île Saint Denis
        • 93 - Seine Saint Denis: La Courneuve to Saint Ouen
        • 93 - Seine Saint Denis: Sevran to Villepinte
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      • A Remarkable Journey in Zigoto's New Motor-Car - 1912
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Paris n'existe pas (Robert Benayoun 1969)

some books and essays that read maps in films or films through maps or films as maps...

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  • Dudley Andrew, 'An Atlas of World Cinema', in Stephanie Dennison & Song Hwee Lim, Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics in Film (London: Wallflower, 2006)
  • Sue Beeton, Film-Induced Tourism (Clevedon: Channel View, 2005)
  • Giuliana Bruno, Streetwalking on a Ruined Map: Cultural Theory and the City Films of Elvia Notari (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993)
  • Giuliana Bruno, 'Site-seeing: Architecture and the Moving Image', Wide Angle 19.4 (1997)
  • Giuliana Bruno, Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film (London: Verso, 2002)
  • Charlotte Brunsdon, London in Cinema: the cinematic city since 1945 (London: BFI, 2007)
  • Sébastien Caquard & D.R. Fraser Taylor, 'What is Cinematic Cartography', editorial of the 'Cinematic Cartography' special issue of The Cartographic Journal 46.1 (2009)
  • Sébastien Caquard, 'Foreshadowing Contemporary Digital Cartography: A Historical Review of Cinematic Maps in Films', The Cartographic Journal 46.1 (2009)
  • Teresa Castro, 'Les Archives de la planète: a cinematographic atlas', Jump Cut 48 (2006)
  • Teresa Castro, 'La Ville planétaire: un regard cartographique', in Laurent Creton & Kristian Feigelson, 'Villes cinématographiques: Ciné-lieux', Théorème 10 (2007)
  • Teresa Castro, 'Les cartes vues à travers le cinéma', TextImage 2 (2008)
  • Teresa Castro, 'Cinema's Mapping Impulse: questioning visual culture', The Cartographic Journal, 46.1 (2009) 
  • Teresa Castro, 'Mapping the City through Film: from "Topophilia" to Urban Mapscapes', in Richard Koeck & Les Roberts (eds), The City and the Moving Image (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
  • Teresa Castro, La Pensée cartographique des images (Lyon: Aléas, 2011)
  • David B. Clarke (ed.), The Cinematic City (London: Routledge, 1997)
  • David B. Clarke & Marcus Doel, 'Engineering Space and Time: Moving Pictures and Motionless Trips', Journal of Historical Geography 31.1 (2005)
  • Tom Conley, 'Le Cinéaste de la vie moderne: Paris as Map in Film, 1924-1934', in Michael Sheringham (ed.), Parisian Fields (London: Reaktion, 1996)
  • Tom Conley, 'Getting Lost on the Waterways of L'Atalante', in Murray Pomerance (ed.), Cinema and Modernity (Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006)
  • Tom Conley, Cartographic Cinema (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007)
  • Tom Conley, 'Border Incidence', Symploke, 15.1-2 (2007)
  • Tom Conley, 'Locations of Film Noir', The Cartographic Journal 46.1 (2009)
  • Edward Dimendberg, Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004)
  • Rosalind Galt, The New European Cinema: Redrawing the Map (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006)
  • Jill Forbes, 'Gender and Space in Cléo de 5 à 7', Studies in French Cinema 2:2 (2002)
  • Agustin Gámir Orueta, 'La cartografía en el cine: mapas y planos en las producciones cinematográficas occidentales', Scripta Nova, XIV:334 (2010) 
  • Agustin Gámir Orueta & Carlos Manuel Valdés, 'Cine y geografía: espacio geográfico, paisaje y territorio en las producciones cinematográficas',  Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españole 45 (2007) 
  • Graeme Gilloch, 'Urban Optics: Film, Phantasmagoria and the City in Benjamin and Kracauer', New Formation 61 (2007)
  • Graham Harper & Jonathan Rayner (eds), Cinema and Landscape: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography (Bristol: Intellect, 2010)
  • Gérard Henriet & Jacques Mauduy, Géographies du western (Paris: Nathan, 1989)
  • Thierry Joliveau, 'Connecting Real and Imaginary Places through Geospatial Technologies: Examples from Set-jetting and Art-oriented Tourism, The Cartographic Journal 46.1 (2009)
  • Jeffrey Klenotic, 'Putting Cinema History on the Map: Using GIS to Explore the Spatiality of Cinema', in Richard Maltby, Daniel Biltereyst & Philippe Meers (eds), Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) 
  • T. Jefferson Kline, 'Cinema and/as Mapping: Reorienting Ourselves Through Film' [on Les Amants, Damage and Three Colours: Red], in Unraveling French Cinema (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
  • Myrto Konstantarakos, Spaces in European Cinema (Bristol: Intellect, 2000)
  • Roland-François Lack, 'Paris nous appartient: reading without a map', Australian Journal of French Studies  47:2 (2010)
  • Roland-François Lack, 'The sign of the map: cartographic reading in Rohmer’s Le Signe du Lion', Senses of Cinema 54 (2010)
  • Roland-François Lack, 'London Circa Sixty Six: the Map of the Film', in Gail Cunningham and Stephen Barber (eds), London Eyes: Reflections in Text and Image (Oxford: Berghahn, 2008)
  • Gérard Lefort, 'Nantes en Demy teintes', Libération (23.10.2010)
  • Jean-Louis Leutrat & Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues, Les Cartes de l'Ouest (Paris: Armand Colin, 1990)
  • Chris Lukinbeal, 'The map that precedes the territory: an introduction to essays in cinematic geography', GeoJournal 59.4 (2004)
  • James Morrison, 'Hitchcock's Ireland: the performance of Irish identity in Juno and the Paycock and Under Capricorn', in Richard Allen & Sam Ishii-Gonzalez (eds), Hitchcock Past and Future (London: Routledge, 2004)
  • Ewa Mazierska & Laura Rascaroli, From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern Cities, European Cinema (London: I.B. Tauris, 2003)
  • Juhani Palasmaa, 'Geometry of Terror: Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window', in Alberto Perez-Gomez & Stephen Parcell (eds), Chora 4: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004)
  • François Penz, 'From Topographical Coherence to Creative Geography: Rohmer's The Aviator's Wife and Rivette's Pont du Nord', in Andrew Webber & Emma Wilson (eds), Cities in Transition: the Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis (London: Wallflower, 2008)
  • Laura Rascaroli & Ewa Mazierska, Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie (London: Wallflower, 2006) 
  • Ella Shohat, Taboo  Memories, Diasporic Voices (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006) 
  • Lawrence R. Schehr, 'Fragmented Territories: AIDS and Paris in Les Nuits fauves of Cyril Collard', French Forum 34.1 (2009) 
  • Katherine Shonfield, Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and the City (London: Routledge, 2000)
  • Pelle Snickars & Mats Björkin, Early Swedish (Non-fiction) Cinema and Cartography’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 22.3 (2002)
  • Pierre Sorlin, 'Urban Space in European Cinema', in Wendy Everett & Axel Goodbody, Revisiting Space: Space and Place in European Cinema (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005)
  • Maria Tortajada, 'Le  regard urbain dans le nouveau cinéma suisse', in Charles Perraton & François Jost (eds), Un nouvel art de voir la ville et de faire du cinéma (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003)
  • Pasi Väliaho, Mapping the Moving Image: Gesture, Thought and Cinema Circa 1900 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010)
  • Jerry White, The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic 1958-1988 (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009)

Film Location Guides

  • Mark Adams, Location London: London's Film Locations Uncovered (London: New Holland, 2003)
  • Marcelline Block (ed.), World Film Locations: Paris (Bristol: Intellect, 2011)
  • Simon R. H. James, London Film Location Guide (London: Batsford, 2007)
  • Neil Mitchell (ed.), World Film Locations: London (Bristol: Intellect, 2011) 
  • Tony Reeves, Movie London: Exploring the City Film-by-Film (London: Titan, 2008)