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British Film Design: A History

British Film Design: A History

Ede, Laurie N.

Paperback

Series: Cinema and Society

Film Studies

ISBN10: 1848851081
ISBN13: 9781848851085
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Published: Mar 30 2010
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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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