[Download ebook] Film Architecture: Set Designs from Metropolis to Blade Runner (Architecture & Design) PDF

Book: Film Architecture: Set Designs from Metropolis to Blade Runner (Architecture & Design) PDF

By David Winton Bell Gallery (Brown University)

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Through a series of contributions from major scholars, this book examines visionary architecture in films by focusing on original set designs from filmmakers across Europe and the United States. The book begins with medievalizing, expressionistic and psychological sets for films, such as "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari" and "Algol", and moves on to experimental depictions of the anticipated modern city in such films as "Asphalt and Sunrise" and the dark view of the future in "Metropolis". The cinema...