British film design
Subtitle: a history
By: Laurie N. Ede
Series: Cinema and society series; Cinema and society
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781848851078; 9781848851085
Subjects: Motion pictures; Künstlerische Leitung; Design; Art direction; Setting and scenery; Filmarchitektur; Film; History
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."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-238) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene; title: Early stages : British design in the silent era; title: The foreign touch : émigré design of the 1930s; title: Prestige design : working for Rank in the 1940s; title: Cheap laughs and cheap thrills; title: No sets please, we're British : polemical realism via the new wave; title: Do they mean us? : American-financed design of the 1960s; title: Pictorial design; title: Do we mean us? : British visions, and visions of Britain; title: Surveying the scene.