Laurie N Ede

British Film Design

A History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"British Film Design" is about the things that you see when you close your eyes and think of British cinema: Dr. No's Hideaway, the buffet of 'Brief Encounter', Vera Drake's parlour, Hogwarts School...and a thousand other visions of British films. This book is also about the people who have created those visions. The physical environments of films are made by Production Designers/Art Directors. Their efforts have tended to go unnoticed by cinema audiences. "British Film Design" offers the first comprehensive historical survey of British art direction. It takes a chronological journey through British film design, starting with the efforts of the film 'primitives' of the silent era and ending with the modern day purveyors of part built/part computer generated 'blended design'. Certain themes recur en route. These include British cinema's obsession with realism; the Production Designer's continual struggle for recognition; and, influence from European artists and the benefits - and perils - of American finance. The book succeeds in expressing the joy of looking at films from inside out; seeing beyond the stars to recognise sets as silent players in the action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781848851085
• ISBN-10: 1848851081
• Artikelnr.: 27718655

Autorenporträt

Laurie N. Ede

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Setting the Scene
2 Early Stages
3 The Foreign Touch
4 Prestige Design
5 Cheap Laughs and Thrills
6 No sets, please... we're British
7 Do they mean us? American-financed design
8 Pictorial Design
9 Do we mean us?
Appendix: British Academy Award Winners for Design
bibliography
Index