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Shot on Location: Postwar Hollywood's Exploration of Real Space by R. Barton Palmer

THE PROLIFERATION OF LOCATION SHOOTING IN film production is one of the most significant developments in global film culture after World War II. From Italian neorealism’s efforts to document its war-torn country to Hollywood’s attempts to capitalize on distant, exotic locations (and the financial savings found there), many nations jumped at the opportunity to push filmmaking out of the studio into the real world. Much has been written about this phenomenon; however, that literature has largely been divided into two camps. On the one hand, there are philosophical and aesthetic studies of postwar European cinemas and their artistic goals. On the other hand, there are histories of the technological advancements and industrial goals of the floundering studios of postwar Hollywood. R. Barton Palmer’s Shot on Location attempts to unite these narratives. On a basic level, the book maps the multiple strategies through which Hollywood began to incorporate location shooting into its storytelling. But Palmer’s larger claim is that Hollywood’s forays into location shooting were, in fact, intrinsically linked to the industry’s—and the nation’s—relationship to postwar Europe. These Hollywood films—Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953) and Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer, 1961) among them—were connected to the underlying philosophy of Italian neorealism through their commitment to documenting the real world and to authenticity more generally. This is an intriguing, even provocative intervention. The bifurcation of postwar film studies is not merely based on regional or national grounds: the neorealists and Hollywood moguls themselves considered their goals and methods fundamentally different. Applying the philosophy of preeminent neorealist screenwriter Zavattini to unpack commercial film, then, will no doubt feel heretical to some readers, who will remember his famous definition of neorealism as a cinema that would prefer to film airplanes quietly passing by overhead rather than an airborne battle