摘要：World Film Locations: New York is part of a collection of a series celebrating the part played by famous cities, in film. New York – to the mind of editor Scott Jordan Harris, "the most storied, photographed and…filmed [city] on earth" (p. 5) – is (as are the other texts in the series) used as a space with which one can uncover a unique approach to film. Academics such as Michael Shapiro and Tom Conley have recently pursued the cartography of the filmic space in order to consider a political dimension in a film's aesthetics. But, unlike the aims of those authors, the writers in World Film Locations are concerned solely with evoking a moment in a film which has since come to irrevocably tie the area represented, to the cinema
