Explores the many applications of art and architecture appearing in films produced in Hollywood from the very beginning until the fifties. The first chapters deal with the process of design, construction, physical characteristics and immediate functions of a wide variety of architectural sets. The remaining chapters examine the great number of styles shown in those movies and take the reader up to the final triumph of modernist architecture in the aftermath of the Second World War.
Explores the many applications of art and architecture appearing in films produced in Hollywood from the very beginning until the fifties. The first chapters deal with the process of design, construction, physical characteristics and immediate functions of a wide variety of architectural sets. The remaining chapters examine the great number of styles shown in those movies and take the reader up to the final triumph of modernist architecture in the aftermath of the Second World War.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Juan Antonio Ramirez, professor of art history at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in Spain, is the author of several books on architectural history, modern art, and visual culture.
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Table of Contents Foreword: Architecture in the Movies and Elsewhere in History ( John F. Moffitt) Preface to the English Edition: Ten Lessons About Architecture in the Movies Preface to the First Edition (1986) 1. General Introduction Film Architecture and the Crisis of Modernism From Shooting on Location to Filming in the Studios The Architecture of Movie Theaters and Architecture in the Movies Film Architecture vs. Ordinary Architecture 2. Set Design The First Advances in Art Direction Architect vs. Director: Joseph Urban The "Illustrators": Anton Grot and William Cameron Menzies Stage Designers and Painters: Wilfred Buckland and Ben Carré Supervising Architects: Hans Dreier, Van Nest Polglase, and Cedric Gibbons Other Art Directors The Design Process Background Research Additional Aspects of Design The Imaginary Client and the Viewing Customer: Scale Models Working Conditions and the Studio Styles 3. Set Construction Techniques, Materials, and Architectural Machinery Tricks of the Trade The Impact of Sound 4. From Furniture to Artificial Landscapes Set Dressing and the Accessories Departments Wardrobes vs. Sets The Construction of Landscapes Artificial Oceans and Creative Ship-Building Heavenly Effects 5. Architecture and Desire: The Character of Film Constructions Six Distinctive Qualities Color and Lighting A Driving Functionalism 6. The Death and Resurrection of Sets Methods of Destruction: Fire, Burial, Abandonment The Ruins of Hollywood Architectural Metempsychosis: The Permanent Sets Some Statistics 7. Architectural Styles from Antiquity Mesopotamia and Palestine Egypt Greco-Roman Architecture 8. From Medieval to Renaissance Architectural Styles Castles and Palaces The Gothic of Terror Church, Cloister, Street... Examples from the Renaissance 9. The Provinces of Exoticism From Legendary Arabia to Contemporary Legend: Moorish Spain An Archetypal Spain India Pan-Slavic Architecture and/or the Jungle The Far East Pre-Columbian America 10. From Colonial Baroque to Contemporary Eclecticism The "Spanish Style" and the Bourgeois Baroque Did a Cinematic Neo-Classicism Exist? "American" Architecture, Frontier to Urban Other (Old World) Countries 11. Modern Architecture Conquers Hollywood The First Moderns: Urban, Rambova, et al. Art Deco and Zigzag Geometrization The Ocean Liner and "Streamline Moderne" The International Style Rationalist-Surrealist Architecture in Musicals 12. Epilogue Some Omnipresent Elements: Staircases, Bathrooms, Bedrooms Partial Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Foreword: Architecture in the Movies and Elsewhere in History ( John F. Moffitt) Preface to the English Edition: Ten Lessons About Architecture in the Movies Preface to the First Edition (1986) 1. General Introduction Film Architecture and the Crisis of Modernism From Shooting on Location to Filming in the Studios The Architecture of Movie Theaters and Architecture in the Movies Film Architecture vs. Ordinary Architecture 2. Set Design The First Advances in Art Direction Architect vs. Director: Joseph Urban The "Illustrators": Anton Grot and William Cameron Menzies Stage Designers and Painters: Wilfred Buckland and Ben Carré Supervising Architects: Hans Dreier, Van Nest Polglase, and Cedric Gibbons Other Art Directors The Design Process Background Research Additional Aspects of Design The Imaginary Client and the Viewing Customer: Scale Models Working Conditions and the Studio Styles 3. Set Construction Techniques, Materials, and Architectural Machinery Tricks of the Trade The Impact of Sound 4. From Furniture to Artificial Landscapes Set Dressing and the Accessories Departments Wardrobes vs. Sets The Construction of Landscapes Artificial Oceans and Creative Ship-Building Heavenly Effects 5. Architecture and Desire: The Character of Film Constructions Six Distinctive Qualities Color and Lighting A Driving Functionalism 6. The Death and Resurrection of Sets Methods of Destruction: Fire, Burial, Abandonment The Ruins of Hollywood Architectural Metempsychosis: The Permanent Sets Some Statistics 7. Architectural Styles from Antiquity Mesopotamia and Palestine Egypt Greco-Roman Architecture 8. From Medieval to Renaissance Architectural Styles Castles and Palaces The Gothic of Terror Church, Cloister, Street... Examples from the Renaissance 9. The Provinces of Exoticism From Legendary Arabia to Contemporary Legend: Moorish Spain An Archetypal Spain India Pan-Slavic Architecture and/or the Jungle The Far East Pre-Columbian America 10. From Colonial Baroque to Contemporary Eclecticism The "Spanish Style" and the Bourgeois Baroque Did a Cinematic Neo-Classicism Exist? "American" Architecture, Frontier to Urban Other (Old World) Countries 11. Modern Architecture Conquers Hollywood The First Moderns: Urban, Rambova, et al. Art Deco and Zigzag Geometrization The Ocean Liner and "Streamline Moderne" The International Style Rationalist-Surrealist Architecture in Musicals 12. Epilogue Some Omnipresent Elements: Staircases, Bathrooms, Bedrooms Partial Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index
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