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2012 Floods, Venice, Italy
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2012 Floods, Venice, Italy

Culture
Cinema and Venice in popular culture and media
Venice has been the setting or chosen location of numerous films, novels, poems and other cultural references. The city was a particularly popular setting for several novels, essays, and other works of fictional or non-fictional literature. Examples of these include Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and Othello, Ben Jonson's Volpone, Voltaire's Candide, Casanova's autobiographical History of My Life, Anne Rice's Cry to Heaven, and Philippe Sollers' Watteau in Venice, to name but a few. The city has also been a setting for numerous films and music videos, such as the James Bond series From Russia with Love, Moonraker, The Tourist, Casino Royale, Katharine Hepburn in Summertime, Death in Venice, Fellini's Casanova, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, A Little Romance, The Italian Job, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Siouxsie and the Banshees "Dear Prudence" and Madonna's Like a Virgin (song). Also, the series five episode of Doctor Who, Vampires in Venice was also set in Venice. On addition to that, numerous video games such as Tomb Raider 2, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 and Assassin's Creed II feature Venice in their games.

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