Charleston is often selected as a setting for film, television and books. Here are a few examples:

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Films

• Dear John (2010)
• Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
• An Occasional Heaven
• Chasers
• Consenting Adults
• Cold Mountain
• Die Hard: with a Vengeance
• Deceiver
• For the Boys
• Major League: Back to the Minors
• Mary Janes Last Dance
• O
• Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story
• Rich In Love
• The Break
• The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
• The Great Santini
• The In Crowd
• The Jackal
• The Legend of Bagger Vance
• The Lords of Discipline
• The Notebook
• The Patriot 
• The Prince of Tides
• White Squall
• The Boyfriend School (1990)
• The Break (1995)
• The Corndog Man
• Cousin of Sleep
• The Double McGuffin
• Folly Island
• Hard Feelings
• Heart of Midnight
• The In Crowd
• Leo
• Little Senegal
• Lolita
• Made in Heaven
• New Best Friend
• Night of the Living Dead
• An Occasional Hell
• Other Voices, Other Rooms
• Paradise
• Peg of the Pirates
• The Philadelphia Experiment
• Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
• Satisfaction
• Scarlett
• Gone with the Wind
• Swamp Thing
• Under Cover
• Voodoo Dawn  

Television shows

• Palmetto Pointe
• Army Wives
• Scarlett, a 1994 TV miniseries based on Alexandra Ripley's sequel to "Gone with the Wind."
• Deadly Pursuits, a 1996 TV movie with Tori Spelling.
• TV miniseries of the trilogy of North and South
• TV movie The Hunley (1999)
• Special Bulletin, a 1983 TV-film presented as a simulated news broadcast of a nuclear terrorism-related hostage taking and subsequent nuclear explosion in Charleston.
• The 1990s Nick Jr. show Gullah Gullah Island took place on a fictional barrier island near Charleston, South Carolina.

Writing about Charleston

• Pat Conroy: South of Broad, The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, Lords of Disciplins, Prince of Tides, Beach Music
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  Edgar Allen Poe: "The Gold Bug"
• George Gershwin: "Porgy and Bess"*
• Rafael Sabatini: The Carolinian
• Sue Monk Kidd, The secret Life of Bees
• Nancy Rhyne, The South Carolina Lizard Man; Alice Flagg, Ghost of the Hermitage
• Dorothea Benton Frank: The Land of Mango Sunsets; The Christmas Pearl; Full of Grace; Pawleys Island; Shem Creek Isle of Palms;  Plantation; Sullivans Island; Bulls Island.
• Cassandra King: Lady Jane,” short story, Thema literary journal, 1994;“Lady Jane,” reprinted, Alabama Bound, anthology, 1995;Making Waves in Zion, novel, River City Press, 1995; “Fig Picking,” short story, Belles Letters anthology, 1998; “Teacher’s Pet,” article, “Cooking Light” magazine, 1999; “A Courtroom in Maycomb,” article, Callaloo literary journal, 2000; The Sunday Wife, novel, Hyperion, 2002; “Fig Picking,” reprinted, Stories From Where We Live, Milkweed Press, 2002; “My Life is a Country Song,” Stories from the Blue Moon Café, 2004; “Circle of Friends,” Life Magazine, 2004; The Same Sweet Girls, novel, Hyperion, January 200
• Richard N. Cote: Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison Theodosia Burr Alston; Portrait of a Prodigy ;  Mary’s World: Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century Charleston’ 

* George Gershwin composed the opera Porgy and Bess while living on Folly Beach, South Carolina. George Gershwin's piano is on display in the Charleston Museum.