World Film Locations: London

Neil Mitchell is a freelance writer and critic whose writings have appeared in, among other publications, Big Picture, Rogue Cinema and Electric Sheep. He is also the coeditor of Intellect's Directory of World Cinema: Britain.

Handsome and intriguing, like an elegant ghosthunter's companion to a world that is - and isn't -there.

• Maps/ScenesScenes 1-8 – 1927-1951Scenes 9-16 – 1951-1966Scenes 17-24 – 1966-1978Scenes 25-32 – 1980-1997Scenes 33-40 – 1997-2002Scenes 41-50 – 2003-2009EssaysLondon: City of the Imagination – Neil MitchellVictorian London: A Painterly Vision of the City Divided – Virginie SélavyEaling Studios: A Brief History of the Mecca of British film – Scott Jordan HarrisSwinging London: Their Texts Are Loud But Never Square – James EvansGoing Underground: Strange Goings On Down Below... – James RoseRichard Curtis: A Glamorized and Idealized London – Robert BeamesThames Tales: Stories by the Riverside – Jez Conolly