Film Architecture: Set Designs from Metropolis to Blade Runner (First Edition)

Dietrich Neumann (editor); Donald Albrecht, Anton Kaes, Anthony Vidler, Michael Webb (essays)

ISBN 10: 3791316052 / ISBN 13: 9783791316055

Published by Prestel, Munich and New York, 1996

About this Item

First Edition. Small bump on the bottom right corner of the front board, else about Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 164047

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Film Architecture: Set Designs from Metropolis to Blade Runner (First Edition)
• Publisher: Prestel, Munich and New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3791316052
• ISBN 13: 9783791316055
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Seller catalogs:
  • Design
  • Film Books

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Synopsis

Examining architectural elements of original set designs used by filmmakers across Europe and the US, this book begins with the expressionistic and psychological sets in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Algol , then looks at the bleak view of the future in Metropolis , and experimental depictions of visionary modern cities in Asphalt and Sunrise , and in the more recent films Blade Runner and Dick Tracy . The cinema of the Weimar Republic is taken as a case study, as both architecture and film played an important role in the social and cultural self-definition of the young state. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.