Overview

How is the look of a film achieved? In Art Direction and Production Design, six outstanding scholars survey the careers of notable art directors, the influence of specific design styles, the key roles played by particular studios and films in shaping the field, the effect of technological changes on production design, and the shifts in industrial modes of organization.  The craft’s purpose is to produce an overall pictorial “vision” for films, and in 1924 a group of designers formed the Cinemagundi Club—their skills encompassed set design, painting, decoration, construction, and budgeting. A few years later, in recognition of their contributions to filmmaking, the first Academy Awards for art direction were given, a clear indication of just how essential the oversight of production design had become to the so-called majors. The original essays presented in Art Direction and Production Design trace the trajectory from Thomas Edison’s primitive studio, the Black Maria, to the growth of the Hollywood “studio system,” to the influence of sound, to a discussion of the “auteur theory,” and to contemporary Hollywood in which computer-generated imagery has become common. By 2000, the Society of Motion Picture Art Directors became the Art Directors Guild, emphasizing the significance of the contributions of art direction and production design to filmmaking.  Art Direction and Production Design is a volume in the Behind the Silver Screen series—other titles in the series include Acting, Animation, Cinematography, Directing, Editing and Special/Visual Effects, Producers, Screenwriting, and Sound. 

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Author:   Lucy Fischer ,  Lucy Fischer ,  Mark Shiel ,  Merrill Schleier
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780813564364

ISBN 10:   0813564360
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   06 March 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Lucy Fischer1. The Silent Screen, 1895–1928 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. The Modern Entertainment Marketplace, 2000-Present Stephen Prince Academy Awards for Best Art Direction Notes Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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This illuminating study of design in film examines the evolution of an often-overlooked role and the chemistry of knowledge, skill, and collaboration required to create visually compelling cinema. --Rosemarie Knopka Librarian & Archivist, Art Directors Guild (09/09/2014) This terrific book depicts the production design of movies so that it is actually 'seeable.' Always reflecting the enormous changes in technology, the audience and the industry, the continuity of the art form comes to the foreground. --Rick Carter Academy Award-winning production designer of Avatar and Lincoln (08/25/2014)

This terrific book depicts the production design of movies so that it is actually 'seeable.' Always reflecting the enormous changes in technology, the audience and the industry, the continuity of the art form comes to the foreground. --Rick Carter Academy Award-winning production designer of Avatar and Lincoln This illuminating study of design in film examines the evolution of an often-overlooked role and the chemistry of knowledge, skill, and collaboration required to create visually compelling cinema. --Rosemarie Knopka Librarian & Archivist, Art Directors Guild

This illuminating study of design in film examines the evolution of an often-overlooked role and the chemistry of knowledge, skill, and collaboration required to create visually compelling cinema. --Rosemarie Knopka Librarian & Archivist, Art Directors Guild (09/09/2014) This terrific book depicts the production design of movies so that it is actually 'seeable.' Always reflecting the enormous changes in technology, the audience and the industry, the continuity of the art form comes to the foreground. --Rick Carter Academy Award-winning production designer of Avatar and Lincoln (08/25/2014) -This terrific book depicts the production design of movies so that it is actually 'seeable.' Always reflecting the enormous changes in technology, the audience and the industry, the continuity of the art form comes to the foreground.---Rick Carter-Academy Award-winning production designer of Avatar and Lincoln- (08/25/2014) -This illuminating study of design in film examines the evolution of an often-overlooked role and the chemistry of knowledge, skill, and collaboration required to create visually compelling cinema.---Rosemarie Knopka-Librarian & Archivist, Art Directors Guild- (09/09/2014)

This terrific book depicts the production design of movies so that it is actually 'seeable.' Always reflecting the enormous changes in technology, the audience and the industry, the continuity of the art form comes to the foreground. --Rick Carter Academy Award-winning production designer of Avatar and Lincoln (08/25/2014)

Author Information

LUCY FISCHER is a Distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author or editor of nine books, including Body Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema (Rutgers University Press) and Teaching Film.

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