Main entry:

Adam, Ken, 1921-2016.

Title & Author:

Ken Adam designs the movies : James Bond and beyond / Ken Adam and Christopher Frayling.

Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson, 2008.

Description:

229 pages (some folded) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 x 34 cm

Notes:
Illustrated endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (page 228).
1. Art Director to Production Designer -- The Queen of Spades -- Four Ships -- Child in the House -- Around the World in Eighty Days -- Night of the Demon the Bridge on the River Kwai -- Ten Seconds to Hell -- The Trials of Oscar Wilde -- Sodom and Gomorrah -- 2. Working With Stanley Kubrick -- Dr. Strangelove -- Barry Lyndon -- 3. Designing James Bond -- Dr. No -- Goldfinger -- Thunderball -- You Only Live Twice -- Diamonds Are Forever -- The Spy Who Loved Me -- Moonraker -- Goldeneye: Rogue Agent -- Another Spy: The Ipcress File -- 4. The Theatre of History -- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang -- Goodbye, Mr. Chips -- Sleuth -- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution -- Salon Kitty -- Pennies from Heaven -- King David -- Agnes of God -- The Last Emperor -- Crimes of the Heart -- The Freshman -- The Madness of King George -- 5. Two Operas -- The Girl of the Golden West -- Wozzeck -- 6. Drawings Come to Life -- Peter Pan -- Addams Family Values -- 7. Designing the Future -- Lord L -- Star Trek -- The Motion Picture -- The Cinema of the Future -- The Fantasticks -- 8. Back to Berlin -- Berlin Millennium Exhibition -- Taking Sides -- 'The Cabinets of Dr. Caligari' -- 9. Conclusion: The Art of Ken Adam.

Summary:

Ken Adam is the most distinguished living production designer in the world. His work spans seven decades and more than seventy-five movies, from his revolutionary designs for the first seven James Bond movies to work on Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and Alan Bennett's The Madness of King George, for both of which he won an Oscar. Born in Germany, Adam trained in London as an architect, and his first Art Director credit was on Around the World in Eighty Days in 1956. He has subsequently worked in Hollywood, Italy, and Germany as well as Britain. Ken Adam's extensive personal archive of concept sketches, drawings, set stills, and photographs from every stage of his career forms the basis of this book. Using case studies from the 1950s to the present day, it shows the whole cycle of his production designs, from initial concept to what appears on the screen itself. The result encapsulates the evolving role of the Art Director and Production Designer from the golden age of the big studios to the digital fantasies of the early twenty-first century.

ISBN:

0500514143
9780500514146

Subject:

Adam, Ken, 1921-2016.
James Bond films History and criticism.
Motion picture art directors Great Britain Biography.
Motion pictures Production and direction Great Britain History.
Films de James Bond Histoire et critique.
Directeurs artistiques Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Cinéma Production et réalisation Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
James Bond films.
Motion picture art directors.
Motion pictures Production and direction.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Frayling, Christopher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 259332
Call No.: BIB 190257
Status: Available