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Acclaimed artist Andrew DeGraff has created beautiful hand painted maps of all your favorite films, from King Kong and North by Northwest to The Princess Bride, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, even The Breakfast Club with the routes of major characters charted in meticulous cartographic detail Follow Marty McFly through the Hill Valley of 1985, 1955, and 1985 once again as he races Back to the Future Trail Jack Torrance as he navigates the corridors of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining And join Indiana Jones on a globe spanning journey from Nepal to Cairo to London on his quest for the famed Lost Ark Each map is presented in an 11 by 14 inch format, with key details enlarged for closer inspection, and is accompanied by illuminating essays by film critic A D Jameson, who speaks to the unique geographies of each film This beautifully designed atlas is an essential reference for anyone who loves great art and great films. Best Download Cinemaps Author Andrew DeGraff For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr A terrific amount of work has gone into each of the 35 maps in this book I was impressed I did, however, find many of the maps a little hard to follow, partially because of the colours of the background structures Also, it was hard sometimes to figure out where a main character started out in a movie as I couldn t always remember enough of the plot I wanted some sort of notation reminiscent of the You are here dot found in shopping mall maps to show me the character s opening position So, A terrific amount of work has gone int...I received this book for free from the publisher Quirk Books in exchange for an honest review.I really liked this book The idea behind it is so fun The book consists of maps from 35 different movie worlds Some of the movies featured include, Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Clueless, and Guardians of the Galaxy The maps are also not your typical flat ones They arethree dimensional and are reminiscent of bus subway maps because of the characters paths that run througho I received this book for free from the publisher Quirk Books in exchange for an honest review.I really liked this book The idea behind it is so fun The book consists of maps from 35 different movie worlds Some of the movies featured include, Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Clueless, and Guardians of the Galaxy The maps are also not your typical flat ones They arethree dimensional and are reminiscent of bus subway maps because of the characters paths that run throughout them.Artistically, each map is stunning, You can tell so much work was put into each one There is so much detail in each map It s really amazing.The essays that accompanied each map were incredibly insightful in its analysis The essays don t necessarily correlate to the map they just talk about the film in general I also really liked the writing style of the essays They were easy to rea...I received a free review copy of this book via theVine program.I love maps and movies, so I thought this would be right up my alley But it s just not what I expected I wasn t familiar with Andrew DeGraff, and if you already are that may make a huge difference in your reaction to the work.These aren t maps in the usual sense What Andrew DeGraff has done for each selected movie is to place his painted illustrations of the locations on the page and then draw colored lines within each loc I received a free review copy of this book via theVine program.I love maps and movies, so I thought this would be right up my alley But it s just not what I expected I wasn t familiar with Andrew DeGraff, and if you already are that may make a huge difference in your reaction to the work.These aren t maps in the usual sense What Andrew DeGraff has done for each selected movie is to place his painted illustrations of the locations on the page and then draw colored lines within each location and from each location to the others to show the paths each major character follows in the movie s plot Sadly, it reminded me a little bit of those Family Circus cartoons that showed little Billy s paths.I could have overcome my lack of interest in this route map approach if I d liked the artwork, but I don t The colors are muddy and indistinct It can...legitimately, my only complaint is that it s not bigger were the pages presented as something like a 24x18 massive thing you have to lay out on your kitchen table, the book would be perfect i love the closeup details, but i really wish these images were double their size to really glory at the detail all in one go.as it is, the maps...Got it for the maps, but enjoyed the movie articles evenSome of the maps are done in odd murky colors that make them tricky to navigate Even though it s a large sized book, it would have been better if the maps unfolded to an increased size for better viewing The adjoining arti...Read our full review on Hypable As a lover of movies, this book was a lot of fun to look through, evenfun to take a close look at, andfun yet to read Mixed in with the incredibly detailed illustrations and maps, the book treats you to a wonderful reminder of why the films we love create such lasting memories and are waiting for us to return to experience the magic whenever we find the time to return.Along with the maps and text, the book also offers insight into the storylines and m Read our full review on Hypable As a lover of movies, this book was a lot of fun to look through, evenfun to take a close look at, andfun yet to read Mixed in with the incredibly detailed illustrations and maps, the book treats you to a wonderful reminder of why the films we love create such lasting memories and are waiting for us to return to experience the magic whenever we find the time to return.Along with the maps and text, the book also offers insight into the storylines and may help you to look at your favorite movies very differently...What I liked The artistry of the maps themselves The color, and the art was, in most cases, extremely well done Vivid art, with eye catching color and style This book offered a lottext, not only about the movies, but also about how he created each map and what he focused on in terms of what was shown The variety of movies was excellent From Jaws, to the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, to Lord of the Rings, the Princess Bride and many others, it was a distinct and interesting c What I liked The artistry of the maps themselves The color, and the art was, in most cases, extremely well done Vivid art, with eye catching color and style This book offered a lottext, not only about the movies, but also about how he created each map and what he focused on in terms of what was shown The variety of movies was excellent From Jaws, to the Star Wars an...I won this book through goodreads giveaway This book is not what I expected to be When I read the book includes maps, I was visualizing maps in literal sense I love the cover of the book, so I was thinking this will be the style of illustrations inside Was I wrong The maps don t really look like maps Those are drawings from a part of the location from the movie and added to it are lines that show the path the main character took in the movie.I was expecting colorful images, like on the c I won this book through goodreads giveaway This book is not what I expected to be When I read the book includes maps, I was visualizing maps in literal sense I love the cover of the book, so I was thinking this will be the style of illustrations inside Was I wrong The maps don t really look like maps Those are drawings from a part of the location from the movie and added to it are lines that show the path the main character took in the movie.I was expecting colorful images, like on the cover, but in fact the pictures rather lack color I wouldn t call it Atlas It is far from it It is not that I dislike the art in the book, it is just not m...Well, Cinemaps wasn t as good as I expected it to be I thought the art would be amazing and the writing would be interesting Unfortunately, I couldn t read the headings of what movie was being drawn and discussed I know that the authors were using the mapping path technique to draw the movie titles, but I honestly could not read them for the life of me The maps were well done, but not as engrossing as I thought they would be As for the descriptions of the movies, I quickly learned that spoi Well, Cinemaps wasn t as good as I expected it to be I thought the art would be amazing and the writing would be interesting Unfortunately, I couldn t read the headings of what movie was being drawn and discussed I know that the authors were using the mapping path technique to draw the movie titl...Andrew DeGraff takes the leap from mapping books to movies in his latest work The maps are interesting to reflect on, but I m not sure that the maps succeed as either works of art or distillations of their movie sources I often found DeGraff s accompanying essays to beinteresting in their broad reassessment of many modern popular films The...

Cinemaps
  • 06 October 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 160 pages
  • 1594749892
  • Andrew DeGraff
  • Cinemaps