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Ripping Open the Set: French Film Design, 1930-1939

Ripping Open the Set: French Film Design, 1930-1939

McCann, Ben
Everett, Wendy
Goodbody, Axel

Paperback

Series: New Studies in European Cinema, Book 13

Miscellaneous LanguagesFilm StudiesFrench History

ISBN10: 3039103113
ISBN13: 9783039103119
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: May 7 2013
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
French film design throughout the 1930s was not just descriptive, but also expressive: sets were not merely part of the background, but were vital components of a film's overall atmosphere, impact and critical afterlife. This was a period when sets were 'ripped open', as painted backdrops were replaced by three-dimensional constructions to ensure greater proximity to reality. Accomplished set designers such as Alexandre Trauner, Jacques Krauss and Eugène Lourié crafted a series of designs both realist and expressionistic that brought out the underlying themes of a film's narrative and helped create an exportable vision of 'Frenchness' that influenced other European and American film design practices.

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