Acknowledgements.- Beyond the flâneur: an introduction; Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau.- PART 1: LOCATIONS.- The Eiffel Tower: a Parisian film star; Nicoleta Bazgan.- Working-class Paris and post-war noir: Les Portes de la nuit; Thomas Pillard.- The caves of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1950s French cinema; Sébastien Layerle.- Le Signe du lion: Paris in the summer of 1959; Michel Marie.- Truffaut's apartments; Hilary Radner and Alistair Fox.- The New Wave hotel; Roland-François Lack.- The vanishing of Les Halles; Catherine E. Clark.- The Parisian banlieue on screen: so close, yet so far; Ginette Vincendeau.- PART 2: CHARACTERS.- Maigret from across the Channel; Charlotte Brunsdon.- Parisian cinephiles and the Mac-Mahon; Leila Wimmer.- Beyond the flâneuse: the uniqueness of Cléo de 5 à 7; Jennifer Wallace.- Amateur filmmakers' Paris: home movies at the Forum des images; Roger Odin.- The concierge in contemporary French Cinema; Raphaëlle Moine.- Parisian lovers in the contemporary romcom; Mary Harrod.- The enduring glamour of the Parisienne; Stephen Gundle.- PART 3: HISTORY.- Charles Dickens's Two Cities; Colin Jones.- From Meryon to Ulmer's Bluebeard: a Baudelairian iconography; Jean-Loup Bourget.- Site of infamy: the Vel' d'Hiv in French cinema; Sandy Flitterman-Lewis.- 'Unremarkable Paris': Jacques Becker's Urban Everyday; Alastair Phillips.- Television and the renewal of Paris, from official discourse to social criticism; Hélène Jannière.- Parisian building sites (1945-1975): from modernity to abstraction; Marie Gaimard and Marguerite Vappereau.- The mirror of a city: the 'Parisian Collection' of the Forum des images; Jean-Yves de Lépinay.- INTERVIEW.- Filming Paris: an interview with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.- Contributors.- Select bibliography.