Architecture and Film

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ISBN: 9781568982076
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 256 pages
15,2 x 22,9 cm
black & white
June 2000
€19,00 (excl. VAT)

Architecture and Film

Mark Lamster

Architecture and Film looks at the ways architecture and architects are treated on screen and, conversely, how these depictions filter and shape the ways we understand the built environment. It also examines the significant effect that the film industry has had on the American public's perception of urban, suburban, and rural spaces.

Contributors to this collection of essays come from a wide range of disciplines: Nancy Levinson from Harvard Design Magazine writes on how films have depicted architects; Eric Rosenberg from Tufts University looks at how architecture and spatial relations shape the Beatles films A Hard Day's Night, Help! and Let it Be. Joseph Rosa, at the National Building Museum, discusses why modern domestic architecture in recent Hollywood films has become synonymous with unstable inhabitants; and Peter Hall discusses the history of film titling.