Main entry:

Schaal, Hans Dieter, 1943-

Title & Author:

Learning from Hollywood : architecture and film = Architektur und Film / Hans Dieter Schaal ; [translation into English, Michael Robinson].

Publication:

Stuttgart : Edition Axel Menges, 1996.

Description:

127 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
"Published in cooperation with the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin."--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (page 127).
Wolfgang Jacobsen: Time-travel in time-space -- To the subject -- Photography and film -- Spiritual spaces -- Cities -- Ruined cities -- Streets and roads -- Houses -- Rooms -- Homes -- Darkening and lightening -- Fittings and furnishings -- Stairs -- Doors -- Windows -- Visions -- Interplay -- Film reality and studio fiction -- World architecture -- Learning from Hollywood.
Also issued online.
Parallel text in English and German.
Dust jacket.
English and German.

Summary:

This book argues that Hollywood is not only the secret world capital of dreams and the fictions of the subconscious, but also the capital of architecture, and that the architecture of the future will develop in the field of tension between the small and parochial, and the large, spanning the entire world. A new awareness of space spanning the entire world was created in Hollywood: these backgrounds, stage sets and filmic spaces are fixed in every spectator's mind. Films and their images, it suggests, can teach us that the architecture of houses, streets and towns is not just a problem of order, function and economic viability, but that psychology, atmosphere and images are being built here as well.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

3930698706
9783930698707

Subject:

Schaal, Hans Dieter, 1943-
Architecture in motion pictures.
Motion pictures Setting and scenery History.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture au cinéma.
Cinéma Décors Histoire.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern
Motion pictures Setting and scenery
Filmarchitektur
Filmkunst.
Bouwkunst.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Form/genre:

Writings.
History

Added entries:

Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226655
Call No.: NA44.S291.A35 1996
Status: Available