However, Laurie Ede's ambitious study, which attempts a broadly chronological account of British film design from the early pioneers through to the present, from Rescued by Rover (1905) to the Harry Potter films, takes this discussion to a new level.

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?

AU - Ede, Laurie. PY - 2010. Y1 - 2010. N2 - Offers a comprehensive historical survey of British art direction. This title takes a chronological journey through British film design, starting with the efforts of the film 'primitives' of the silent era and ending with the modern day purveyors of part built/part computer generated 'blended design'.

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However, Laurie Ede’s ambitious study, which attempts a broadly chronological account of British film design from the early pioneers through to the present, from Rescued by Rover (1905) to the

2012年12月17日 · Laurie Ede’s book carries the subtitle ‘A History’, and that’s exactly what we get, and very valuably so. It’s not a sustained critical analysis of the impact of production design or its quality on the films produced but, rather, a careful registering of the main stages of its development in Britain from the silent days to the present.

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"British Film Design" is about the things that you see when you close your eyes and think of British cinema: "Dr. No's Hideaway", the buffet of "Brief Encounter", Vera Drake's parlour, "Hogwarts School"...and a thousand other visions of British films. This book is also about the people who have created those visions.