Laurie N. Ede

British Film Design (eBook, ePUB)

A History

• Format: ePub

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; 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857732156
• Artikelnr.: 39141820

Autorenporträt

Laurie N. Ede is a Principal Lecturer in Film, Media and Applied Writing at the University of Portsmouth.

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