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Ede, Laurie N.

British film design : a history / Laurie N. Ede. - London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, c2010. - xii, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Cinema and society series . - Cinema and society. .

Includes bibliographical references :p. ( 229-238)and index.

Setting the scene -- Early stages : British design in the silent era -- The foreign touch : émigré design of the 1930s -- Prestige design : working for Rank in the 1940s -- Cheap laughs and cheap thrills -- No sets please, we're British : polemical realism via the new wave -- Do they mean us? : American-financed design of the 1960s -- Pictorial design -- Do we mean us? : British visions, and visions of Britain -- Surveying the scene.

ISBN: 9781848851078 1848851073 1848851081 (pbk.) 9781848851085 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2010481431

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Motion pictures-- Art direction-- History.--Great Britain--Great Britain
Motion pictures--Setting and scenery-- History--Great Britain.
Filmarchitektur
Künstlerische Leitung
Film
Design

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Gro€britannien

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.A74 / E34 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 791.430250941 / ELB