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.