Art Direction and Production Design - A Modern History of Filmmaking

Informationen zum Autor Lucy Fischer is a distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her books include Body Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema and Teaching Film. Klappentext Art directors and production designers are the cinema's 'architects of illusion'. Their overall purpose is to produce the overall pictorial vision for a film and their skills encompass set design! storyboarding! painting! decoration! construction! budgeting! colour and special effects. This book examines the crafts of art direction and production design. It traces their contribution from Thomas Edison's primitive studio! the Black Maria! to the growth of the Hollywood 'studio system'! to the effect of sound and colour! and on to the computer-generated imagery of contemporary Hollywood. It does so with reference to many major productions! including Gone with the Wind! McCabe and Mrs Miller and Batman! demonstrating the real significance of the contribution of the art director and production designer to filmmaking and its history. A guide to how art directors and production designers have shaped modern cinema Zusammenfassung A guide to how art directors and production designers have shaped modern cinema Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Lucy Fischer 1. The Silent Screen! 1895-1927 Lucy Fischer 2. Classical Hollywood! 1928-1946 Mark Shiel 3. Postwar Hollywood! 1947-1967 Merrill Schleier 4. The Auteur Renaissance! 1968-1980 Charles Tashiro 5. The New Hollywood! 1981-1999 J. D. Connor 6. Hollywood's Digital Back Lot! 2000-Present Stephen Prince Academy Awards for Best Art Direction Notes Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Fischer, Lucy Rose Fischer
• Assisted by: Lucy Fischer (Editor), Lucy (University of Pittsburgh Fischer (Editor)
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.03.2015
• EAN: 9781784530952
• ISBN: 978-1-78453-095-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Behind the Silver Screen; Behind the Silver Screen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Radio, Filmgeschichte, Filmtheorie und Filmkritik, TV, Fernsehen, TV, Filmproduktion: Produktionstechniken, Fernsehen - Privatfernsehen, Englische Bücher / Kunst, Architektur, Fotografie, Film / Recht, Produktion, Wirtschaft