Title & Author:

Architecture and film / edited by Mark Lamster.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2000.

Description:

254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Tall buildings, tall tales : on architects in the movies / Nancy Levinson -- Who built Mr. Blandings' dream house? / Philip Nobel -- Building a film : making Concert of wills / Bob Eisenhardt -- Cedric Gibbons : architect of Hollywood's Golden Age / Christina Wilson -- Dr. Caligari's cabinets : the set design of Ken Adam / Donald Albrecht -- Opening ceremonies : typography and the movies, 1955-1969 / Peter Hall -- Only in Hollywood : confessions of a location manager / Bob Craft -- Escape by design / Maggie Valentine -- Tearing down the house : modern homes in the movies / Joseph Rosa -- Architecture in a mode of distraction : eight takes on Jacques Tati's Playtime / Joan Ockman -- The consuming landscape : architecture in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni / Mitchell Schwarzer -- Shadows in the hinterland : rural noir / Jonathan F. Bell -- Wretched hives : George Lucas and the ambivalent urbanism of Star wars / Mark Lamster -- Bursting at the seams : architecture and the films of the Beatles / Eric Rosenberg.
English.

Summary:

An examination of the ways in which architecture and architects are treated on screen and how these depictions filter and shape the ways we understand the built environment. There are essays from contributors from a range of disciplines and interviews of those working behind the scenes.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568982070 (pbk.)
9781568982076 (pbk.)

Subject:

Bibel Philemonbrief
Architects in motion pictures.
Motion pictures Setting and scenery.
Architecture in motion pictures.
Architectes au cinéma.
Cinéma Décors.
Architecture dans le cinéma.
Architecture au cinéma.
Architektur
Films.
Gebouwen.
Decors.
Ruimtegebruik.
Film.
USA
Architects.
Film (performing arts) 1920-2000.
Sets (architectural elements) 1920-2000.
Architecture (object genre) 1920-2000.

Added entries:

Lamster, Mark, 1969-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212006
Call No.: PN1995.9.A695 A7 2000
Status: Available