World Film Locations: Toronto

Tom Ue is Assistant Professor in English of the Long Nineteenth Century at Cape Breton University and Advising Editor of The Complete Letters of Henry James (University of Nebraska Press). He is the author of Gissing, Shakespeare, and the Life of Writing (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming) and George Gissing (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming); and the editor of George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming). Professor Ue is an Honorary Research Associate at University College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

'Much of Canada considers Toronto a place far too obsessed with money-making to consider anything less consequential, but World Film Locations: Toronto tells a different story. In essays and photos pulled together by Tom Ue, the editor, Toronto looks like a place of fantasies and dreams, where local myths flourish and major buildings encourage cinematic hallucinations.'

• Maps/ScenesScenes 1–6 – 1966–1984Scenes 7–12 – 1984–1995Scenes 13–18 – 1996–2000Scenes 19–24 – 2000–2002Scenes 25–30 – 2002–2004Scenes 31–37 – 2005–2009Scenes 38–44 – 2010–2013Essays Toronto: City of the Imagination – Tom UeRaw Youth – Steve GravestockThe Yongue Street Strip – Steve GravestockDistilling Toronto History: How a Victorian Industrial Site Became a Hollywood Backlot – David FleischerThe Toronto New Wave – Steve GravestockAt Home in Toronto: Houses and Apartments that Signify the City – Richard DennisEverywhere and Nowhere: David Cronenberg's Toronto – David FleisherThe Anonymous Metropolis – David FleisherThe Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) & the City – Piers Handling