Table of Contents

Dedication Acknowledgments Setting the Scene 2 Early Stages 3 The Foreign Touch 4 Prestige Design 5 Cheap Laughs and Thrills 6 No sets, please... we're British 7 Do they mean us? American-financed design 8 Pictorial Design 9 Do we mean us? Appendix: British Academy Award Winners for Design bibliography Index

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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'.

About the Author

Laurie N. Ede is a Principal Lecturer in Film, Media and Applied Writing at the University of Portsmouth.