Polly Platt: Hollywood Production Design and Creative Authorship

Author:   Aaron Hunter
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
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9783030821197


Pages:   226
Publication Date:   20 January 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Aaron Hunter
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.442kg
ISBN:  

9783030821197


ISBN 10:   3030821196
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   20 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction.Section One: Production Designer.Chapter One: Set Design and Attention to Detail.Chapter Two: Location and Design.Chapter Three: Colour.Chapter Four: Costume and Production Design.Chapter Five: Design, Character, Narrative.Section Two: Producer.Chapter Six: James L. Brooks.Chapter Seven: Mentoring New Filmmakers.Conclusion

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“[Aaron Hunter] charts Platt’s substantial contribution to the look of New Hollywood cinema through films like The Last Picture Show (1971) and Thieves Like Us (1974). Hunter’s book is an eye-opener, depicting production design as a collaborative role that cuts across every department from locations to costumes to script. In the 1970s, it was also an underappreciated and underpaid job.” (Nancy M. West, LA Review of Books, lareviewofbooks.org, April 13, 2022)


[Aaron Hunter] charts Platt's substantial contribution to the look of New Hollywood cinema through films like The Last Picture Show (1971) and Thieves Like Us (1974). Hunter's book is an eye-opener, depicting production design as a collaborative role that cuts across every department from locations to costumes to script. In the 1970s, it was also an underappreciated and underpaid job. (Nancy M. West, LA Review of Books, lareviewofbooks.org, April 13, 2022)


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Aaron Hunter lectures in the department of film at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His monograph Authoring Hal Ashby: The Myth of the New Hollywood Auteur (2016) constructs an alternative, multiple-authorship framework for understanding New Hollywood, an approach he continues in this work on Polly Platt. His collection Women and New Hollywood, co-edited with Martha Shearer, will be published in 2022.

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