An Introduction to Film

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Dalle Vacche, Angela. Cinema and Painting: How Art Is Used in
Film. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
Dunning, William V. Changing Images of Pictorial Space: A History
of Spatial Illusion in Painting. Syracuse: Syracuse University
Press, 1991.
Eisenstein, Sergei. Film Form: Essays in Film Theory[and] The Film
Sense. Ed. and trans. Jay Leyda. 2 vols. in 1. New York:
Meridian, 1957.
———. Film Essays and a Lecture.Ed. Jay Leyda. New York:
Praeger, 1970.
Farber, Manny. Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies.Exp.
ed. New York: Da Capo, 1998.
Kracauer, Siegfried. Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical
Reality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960.
Meisel, Martin. Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical
Arts in Nineteenth-Century England. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1983.
Nizhny, Vladmir. Lessons with Eisenstein. Ed. and trans. Ivor
Montagu and Jay Leyda. New York: Hill & Wang, 1962.
Perkins, V. F. Film as Film: Understanding and Judging the Movies.
Baltimore, Md.: Penguin, 1972.
Turim, Maureen. “Symmetry/Asymmetry and Visual
Fascination.” Wide Angle4, no. 3 (1980): 38–47.
Vardac, A. Nicholas. Stage to Screen: Theatrical Method from Garrick
to Griffith. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949.
White, John. The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space. 3rd ed.
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 1987.
Williams, Christopher, ed. Realism and the Cinema: A Reader.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.
Wright, Lawrence. Perspective in Perspective. London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1983.


Production Design
Albrecht, Donald. Designing Dreams: Modern Architecture in the
Movies. New York: Harper & Row and the Museum of Modern
Art, 1986.
Carrick, Edward. Designing for Films. London: Studio
Publications, 1949.
Corliss, Mary, and Carlos Clarens. “Designed for Film: The
Hollywood Art Director.” Film Comment14 (May/June 1978):
26–60.
Ettedgui, Peter. Production Design & Art Direction. Woburn, Mass.:
Focal Press, 1999.
Fischer, Lucy. Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female
Form. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Frayling, Christopher. Ken Adam and the Art of Production Design.
London: Faber and Faber, 2005.
Gibbons, Cedric. “The Art Director.” In Behind the Screen: How
Films Are Made. 41–50. Ed. Stephen Watts. London: Barker,
1938.
Heisner, Beverly. Hollywood Art: Art Direction in the Days of the
Great Studios. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1990.
———. Production Design in the Contemporary American Film: A
Critical Study of 23 Movies and Their Designers. Jefferson, N.C.:
McFarland, 1997.
Horner, Harry. “The Production Designer.” In Filmmakers on
Filmmaking: The American Film Institute Seminars on Motion
Pictures and Television. 2 vols. Vol. I. 149–161. Ed. Joseph
McBride. Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1983.
Hudson, Roger. “Three Designers.” Sight & Sound34, no. 1 (Winter
1964–65): 26–31.


LoBrutto, Vincent. By Design: Interviews with Film Production
Designers. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1992.
———. The Filmmaker’s Guide to Production Design. New York:
Allworth, 2002.
Lourié, Eugene. My Work in Films. San Diego: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1985.
Mandelbaum, Howard, and Eric Myers. Forties Screen Style: A
Celebration of High Pastiche in Hollywood. New York: St.
Martin’s, 1989.
Marner, Terence St. John, and Michael Stringer. Film Design. New
York: Barnes, 1974.
McNamara, Brooks. “The Scenography of Popular
Entertainment.” Drama Review18, no. 1 (March 1974): 16–24.
Mills, Bart. “The Brave New Worlds of Production Design.”
American Film7, no. 4 (January/February 1982): 40–46.
Neumann, Dietrich, ed. Film Architecture: Set Designs from
“Metropolis” to “Blade Runner.”New York: Prestel, 1996.
Olson, Robert L. Art Direction for Film and Video. 2nd ed. Boston:
Focal Press, 1999.
Preston, Ward. What an Art Director Does: An Introduction to Motion
Picture Production Design. Los Angeles: Silman-James, 1994.
Rizzo, Michael. The Art Direction Handbook for Film. Boston: Focal
Press, 2005.
Sennett, Robert S. Setting the Scene: The Great Hollywood Art
Directors. New York: Abrams, 1994.
Surowiec, Catherine A. Accent on Design: Four European Art
Directors. London: BFI, 1992.
Taylor, John Russell. “Satyajit Ray.” In Cinema, a Critical
Dictionary: The Major Film-Makers.2 vols. Vol. II. 813–831. Ed.
Richard Roud. New York: Viking, 1980.
Whitlock, Cathy and the Art Directors Guild. Design on Film: A
Century of Hollywood Art Direction. New York: HarperCollins,
2010.

Elements of Design
Setting, Decor, and Properties
Affron, Charles, and Mirella Jona Affron. Sets in Motion: Art
Direction and Film Narrative. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers
University Press, 1995.
Barsacq, Léon. Caligari’s Cabinet and Other Grand Illusions: A
History of Film Design. Rev. and ed. Elliott Stein. Trans.
Michael Bullock. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976.
Bingen, Stephen, et al. M-G-M: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot.
Solana Beach, Calif. Santa Monica Press, 2011.
Henderson, Brian. “Notes on Set Design and Cinema.” Film
Quarterly42, no. 1 (Fall 1988): 17–28.
Higgins, Scott. Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow: Color Design in
the 1930s. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.
Neumann, Dietrich, ed. Film Architecture: Set Designs from
“Metropolis” to “Blade Runner.”New York: Prestel, 1996.
Pomerance, Murray, ed. City That Never Sleeps: New York and the
Filmic Imagination. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University
Press, 2007.
Sanders, James. Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies. New
York: Knopf, 2001.
Tashiro, C. S. Pretty Pictures: Production Design and the History
Film. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.
Webber, Andrew, and Emma Wilson, eds. Cities in Transition: The
Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis. London: Wallflower,
2008.
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