British film design : a history
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British film design : a history
（Cinema and society series）
I.B. Tauris, c2010
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-238) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"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.
Table of Contents
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
by "Nielsen BookData"
