World Film Locations - Block, Marcelline (Intellect, 2013)
FrontCover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps/Scenes; Essays; Backpages; Prague: City of the Imagination; Picturing Prague: The Old Jewish Cemetery; Scenes 1-8 1913 -- 1984; Barrandov Studios: The Continent's Answer to Hollywood; Scenes 9-16 1988 -- 1998; From Prague Abroad to Abroad in Prague; Scenes 17-24 1999 -- 2002; Film Projections of the Prague Spring; Scenes 25-32 2003 -- 2005; The Presence of the Past in Prague; Scenes 33-39 2005 -- 2008; The Cinema of Prague during World War II; Scenes 40-46 2008 -- 2012; Resources; Contributor Bios; Filmography; BackCover
Prague - known as 'The City of Dreams', 'The Hundred-Spired City' and, most significantly for this study, 'Hollywood of the East' - has played an important role in the history of the seventh art. The Czech capital often functions as an onscreen surrogate for other major European cities such as London, Paris, Venice, Vienna and Zurich