Architecture for the Screen: A Critical Study of Set Design in Hollywood's Golden Age - Couverture rigide

Ramirez, Juan Antonio

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0786417811 ISBN 13 : 9780786417810

Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2004

Synopsis

It is unlikely that you have ever found yourself trapped inside a burning skyscraper or entombed within an Egyptian pyramid. Nonetheless, you probably have some idea of these and many other places because of their portrayal on screen. The movies have overcome the constraints of time and place by bringing us images of diverse and otherwise unfamiliar settings. This work covers the many applications of art and architecture to sets appearing in movies produced in Hollywood between 1915 and 1955, after which time location shooting became ever more common (and less "artistic"). Part One deals with the physical characteristics and immediate functions of a wide variety of architectural sets constructed during Hollywood's "Golden Age." Part Two is concerned with the varieties of essentially mythic expressionism to which this ephemeral architecture was put.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

It is unlikely that you have ever found yourself trapped inside a burning skyscraper or entombed within an Egyptian pyramid. Nonetheless, you probably have some idea of these and many other places because of their portrayal on screen. The movies have overcome the constraints of time and place by bringing us images of diverse and otherwise unfamiliar settings. This work covers the many applications of art and architecture appearing in the movies 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McFarland & Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0786417811
• ISBN 13: 9780786417810
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible