Architecture and film
By: edited by Mark Lamster.
Contributors: Lamster, Mark, 1969-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Architects in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Setting and scenery; Architecture in motion pictures
Description: Architecture and Film looks at the ways architecture and architects are treated on screen and, conversely, how these depictions filter and shape the ways we understand the built environment. It also examines the significant effect that the film industry has had on the American public's perception of urban, suburban, and rural spaces. Contributors to this collection of essays come from a wide range of disciplines. Nancy Levinson from Harvard Design Magazine writes on how films from The Fountainhead to Jungle Fever have depicted architects. Eric Rosenberg from Tufts University looks at how architecture and spatial relations shape the Beatles films A Hard Day's Night, Help!, and Let It Be. Joseph Rosa, curator at the National Building Museum, discusses why modern domestic architecture in recent Hollywood films such as The Ice Storm, L.A. Confidential, and The Big Lebowski has become synonymous with unstable inhabitants. I.D. Magazine writer Peter Hall discusses the history of film titling, focusing on the groundbreaking work of Saul Bass and Maurice Binder. Editor Mark Lamster examines the anti-urbanism of the Star Wars trilogy. The collection also includes the voices of those from within the film industry, who are uniquely able to provide a "behind the scenes" perspective: film editor Bob Eisenhardt comments on the making of Concert of Wills, a documentary on the construction of the Getty Museum; and Robert Kraft focuses on his work as a location director for Diane Keaton's upcoming film about Los Angeles. Also included are interviews with David Rockwell, architect of numerous Planet Hollywood restaurants worldwide and designer of a new hall to host the Academy Awards ceremony; Kyle Kooper, who created title sequences for Seven and Mission Impossible; and motion picture art director Jan Roelfs, whose credits include Gattaca, Orlando, and Little Women.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Tall buildings, tall tales : on architects in the movies / Nancy Levinson; title: Who built Mr. Blandings' dream house? / Philip Nobel; title: Building a film : making Concert of wills / Bob Eisenhardt; title: Cedric Gibbons : architect of Hollywood's Golden Age / Christina Wilson; title: Dr. Caligari's cabinets : the set design of Ken Adam / Donald Albrecht; title: Opening ceremonies : typography and the movies, 1955-1969 / Peter Hall; title: Only in Hollywood : confessions of a location manager / Bob Craft; title: Escape by design / Maggie Valentine; title: Tearing down the house : modern homes in the movies / Joseph Rosa; title: Architecture in a mode of distraction : eight takes on Jacques Tati's Playtime / Joan Ockman; title: The consuming landscape : architecture in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni / Mitchell Schwarzer; title: Shadows in the hinterland : rural noir / Jonathan F. Bell; title: Wretched hives : George Lucas and the ambivalent urbanism of Star wars / Mark Lamster; title: Bursting at the seams : architecture and the films of the Beatles / Eric Rosenberg.