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This book showcases the drawings of Ken Adam, the man who has created some of the most iconic and memorable sets in the history of film. Presented chronologically, the book takes us from design sketches for his earliest movies, including "Around the World in Eighty Days", through his Oscar-winning work with Stanley Kubrick, to production designs for what are probably his(...)
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November 2008, New York
Ken Adams designs the movies: james bond and beyond
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This book showcases the drawings of Ken Adam, the man who has created some of the most iconic and memorable sets in the history of film. Presented chronologically, the book takes us from design sketches for his earliest movies, including "Around the World in Eighty Days", through his Oscar-winning work with Stanley Kubrick, to production designs for what are probably his most celebrated films the first seven "James Bond" movies, including "Dr. No", "Goldfinger", "Diamonds are Forever" and "Moonraker". Also included are production drawings for classics such as "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "Goodbye", "Mr Chips", "Sleuth" and "The Last Emperor". Adam's virtuoso sketches for films and other projects are accompanied by illuminating commentary from the eminent Sir Christopher Frayling, and together present an unrivaled archive of breathtaking and inspirational production design.
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Architecture and film
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"Architecture and Film" looks at the ways architecture and architects are treated on screen and, conversely, how these depictions filter and shape the ways we understand the built environment. It also examines the significant effect that the film industry has had on the (...)
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February 2000, New York
Architecture and film
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"Architecture and Film" looks at the ways architecture and architects are treated on screen and, conversely, how these depictions filter and shape the ways we understand the built environment. It also examines the significant effect that the film industry has had on the American public's perception of urban, suburban, and rural spaces. Contributors to this collection of essays come from a wide range of disciplines. Nancy Levinson writes on how films from "The Fountainhead" to "Jungle Fever" have depicted architects. Eric Rosenberg looks at how architecture and spatial relations shape the Beatles films "A Hard Day's Night", "Help!", and "Let It Be". Joseph Rosa discusses why modern domestic architecture in recent Hollywood films such as "The Ice Storm", "L.A. Confidential", and "The Big Lebowski" has become synonymous with unstable inhabitants. Peter Hall discusses the history of film titling, focusing on the groundbreaking work of Saul Bass and Maurice Binder. Editor Mark Lamster examines the anti-urbanism of the Star Wars trilogy. The collection also includes the voices of those from within the film industry, who are uniquely able to provide a "behind the scenes" perspective: film editor Bob Eisenhardt comments on the making of "Concert of Wills", a documentary on the construction of the Getty Museum; and Robert Kraft focuses on his work as a location director for Diane Keaton's upcoming film about Los Angeles. Also included are interviews with David Rockwell, architect of numerous Planet Hollywood restaurants worldwide and designer of a new hall to host the Academy Awards ceremony; Kyle Kooper, who created title sequences for "Seven" and "Mission Impossible"; and motion picture art director Jan Roelfs, whose credits include "Gattaca", "Orlando", and "Little Women". Previously priced at $41.50.
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Dance in Herland
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''Dance in Herland'' surveys artist Luka Yuanyuan Yang’s cinematic oeuvre, including her feature-length production Chinatown Cha-Cha and five short films centered on diasporic Chinese communities. The book picks up where the films end, serving as both a reflection and a complement, while also creating a new narrative. Over nearly a year of editing, we felt like revisiting(...)
Dance in Herland
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''Dance in Herland'' surveys artist Luka Yuanyuan Yang’s cinematic oeuvre, including her feature-length production Chinatown Cha-Cha and five short films centered on diasporic Chinese communities. The book picks up where the films end, serving as both a reflection and a complement, while also creating a new narrative. Over nearly a year of editing, we felt like revisiting 20th-century San Francisco and Cuba, tracing history through the neons of Chinatown and the echoes of Cantonese opera. For the dancers and performers documented in this book, their bodies act as living archives; their memories and unspoken emotions may be concealed in their steps, fingertips, and gazes.
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Founded in 2018, COUSIN Collective is dedicated to promoting Indigenous artists working with the moving image. ''Temporal Territories'' is the collective’s critical anthology on Indigenous experimental cinema, bringing together new works, reprints of key writings, theoretical interventions, artist portfolios, intergenerational dialogues and manifestos. With topics ranging(...)
Temporal territories: An anthology on indigenous experimental cinema
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Founded in 2018, COUSIN Collective is dedicated to promoting Indigenous artists working with the moving image. ''Temporal Territories'' is the collective’s critical anthology on Indigenous experimental cinema, bringing together new works, reprints of key writings, theoretical interventions, artist portfolios, intergenerational dialogues and manifestos. With topics ranging from science fiction to found-footage filmmaking to the strange case of the DeMille Indians, the volume surveys a varied and vital body of work, and suggests new forms still to come.
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''Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Anthology'' explores the radical practice of one of today's most prolific and politically charged film collectives. Emerging in 2012, ''Colectivo Los Ingrávidos'' challenges cinematic conventions through a decolonial lens, making films that dissolve the boundaries between ritual and resistance, myth and history, the personal and the(...)
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July 2025
Colectivo los ingravidos: An anthology 2012-2024
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''Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Anthology'' explores the radical practice of one of today's most prolific and politically charged film collectives. Emerging in 2012, ''Colectivo Los Ingrávidos'' challenges cinematic conventions through a decolonial lens, making films that dissolve the boundaries between ritual and resistance, myth and history, the personal and the collective. This publication gathers ''Los Ingrávidos''' foundational texts - including their ''Manifesto and Thesis on the Audiovisual'' - alongside newly comissioned essays and critical reflections by thinkers in experimental and decolonial cinema. By presenting the collective's writings in their voice while broadening its reach.
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Le cinéma et le design le montrent : l'objet impossible peut exister, de multiples manières. Il peut être une pure potentialité, comme un sabre laser (dans Star Wars, ou ailleurs), ou un projet prospectif rattrapé par la réalité (le frigo connecté de Total Recall) ; un moyen de générer de l'énergie ou de voyager dans le temps ; il peut être une caméra, une voiture(...)
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September 2025
L'encyclopédie des objets impossibles
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Le cinéma et le design le montrent : l'objet impossible peut exister, de multiples manières. Il peut être une pure potentialité, comme un sabre laser (dans Star Wars, ou ailleurs), ou un projet prospectif rattrapé par la réalité (le frigo connecté de Total Recall) ; un moyen de générer de l'énergie ou de voyager dans le temps ; il peut être une caméra, une voiture réincarnée, un faux livre, un miroir magique ou un plumbus. De tous ces objets, il est question dans « L'Encyclopédie des Objets Impossibles », qui se veut un inventaire critique d'objets de cinéma et de ciné-objets du quotidien, destiné à ouvrir le champ des possibles en termes de représentation et, plus encore, de conception. « L'Encyclopédie des Objets Impossibles » rassemble des articles de recherches, analytiques, critiques, prospectifs, des recueils de notices encyclopédiques, des essais de forme plus libre, allant du cataloguage systématique aux écrits poétiques.
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Thirty-three richly suggestive stories by Antonioni, that range in length from a single paragraph to several pages. Not stories in the usual sense, these are instead a series of evocative sketches or “narrative nuclei,” each the genesis for a possible future film. Although he ultimately didn’t develop most of these ideas further, encountering them now provides a unique(...)
Architecture and Film, Set Design
December 2025
That bowling alley on the Tiber
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Thirty-three richly suggestive stories by Antonioni, that range in length from a single paragraph to several pages. Not stories in the usual sense, these are instead a series of evocative sketches or “narrative nuclei,” each the genesis for a possible future film. Although he ultimately didn’t develop most of these ideas further, encountering them now provides a unique glimpse into Antonioni’s mind and cinematic point of view.
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Studios are, at once, material environments and symbolic forms, sites of artistic creation and physical labor, and nodes in networks of resource circulation. They are architectural places that generate virtual spaces—worlds built to build worlds. On the outside, they have become icons of corporate identity, while on the inside, they have remained invisible in order to be(...)
In the studio: Visual creation and its material environments
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Studios are, at once, material environments and symbolic forms, sites of artistic creation and physical labor, and nodes in networks of resource circulation. They are architectural places that generate virtual spaces—worlds built to build worlds. On the outside, they have become icons of corporate identity, while on the inside, they have remained invisible in order to be seen. As such, they have actively faded into the background of critical discourse and into the margins of film and media history. Recovering their hidden role in the history of visual creation, ''In the studio'' demonstrates that when we foreground these worlds, we gain new insights into moving-image culture and the material, ecological, social, political, and economic dynamics that quietly mark the worlds on our screens.
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Design in a frame of emotion
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A conversation about design, filmmaking, Afrofuturism, world-building, and other topics with Hannah Beachler, Academy-Award-winning production designer of "Black Panther". Hannah Beachler is known as an award-winning production designer, but she tells an audience that she considers herself to be more of a story designer. As film stills and concept art from a few of those(...)
Architecture and Film, Set Design
February 2021
Design in a frame of emotion
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A conversation about design, filmmaking, Afrofuturism, world-building, and other topics with Hannah Beachler, Academy-Award-winning production designer of "Black Panther". Hannah Beachler is known as an award-winning production designer, but she tells an audience that she considers herself to be more of a story designer. As film stills and concept art from a few of those stories--"Moonlight", "Miles Ahead", "Creed", "Lemonade", and "Black Panther"--flash across a screen, Beachler engages in a meandering conversation with Jacqueline Stewart and Toni L. Griffin about set building and curation, urban design, location scouting, Afrofuturism, fictional histories, and Black feminist narratives, and illustrates her role: a designer behind on-screen tableaux that provide not only visual feasts of artistry and imagination, but also intimate spaces of emotion, humanity, and constructed memory.
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Dans cette histoire des sciences et des technologies, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) occupe une place centrale – et méritée. Avec son équipe, il a mis au point ou perfectionné un grand nombre d’inventions décisives, qui ont changé le monde – et notre perception du monde : l’enregistrement du son avec le phonographe (1877), l’ampoule électrique durable (1880), la(...)
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September 2014
Menlo Park 3 machines uchroniques
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Dans cette histoire des sciences et des technologies, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) occupe une place centrale – et méritée. Avec son équipe, il a mis au point ou perfectionné un grand nombre d’inventions décisives, qui ont changé le monde – et notre perception du monde : l’enregistrement du son avec le phonographe (1877), l’ampoule électrique durable (1880), la production et la distribution d’éle tricité (1880), le cinéma avec le kinétographe (une caméra, 1891), le kinétoscope (une visionneuse individuelle, 1891), la Black Maria (un studio de cinéma, 1893) et le kinétophone (qui synchronise un kinétoscope et un phonographe, 1895), etc. Il a mis sur pied l’un des premiers laboratoires de recherche industriels, d’abord à Menlo Park, N. J. (1876 – 1886), puis à West Orange, N. J. (1887 – 1931), avec plusieurs associés et un grand nombre de chercheurs salariés, qui travaillaient en parallèle sur des dizaines de projets et déposaient annuellement des centaines de brevets. Pour comme cialiser ses inventions, il a fondé une douzaine de compagnies, dont la Edison General Electric (1890) qui deviendra la General Electric.
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