Things to Come

Christopher Frayling (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

83 Seiten

1995 | 1995 ed.
BFI Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-85170-480-7 (ISBN)

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The release of "Things to Come" in 1936 was one of the key moments in the history of science fiction in the cinema. The film was the brainchild of H. G. Wells, whose worldwide reputation as a thinker had persuaded its producer, Alexander Korda, to offer him a contract giving him virtually total control over the project. Korda drafted a dazzling array of talents to render into pictures Wells's ideas of the future a hundred years hence. His brother, Vincent Korda, a distinguished painter, was employed as art director, and the Bauhaus artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy contributed ideas for futuristic sets. As director, Korda hired William Cameron Menzies, who had practically invented the profession of Hollywood art director through his work with Douglas Fairbanks on "The Thief of Baghdad "and Rudolf Valentino on "Son of the Sheik," and whose career would climax with "Gone With the WInd." The result was a landmark in cinematic design. Christopher Frayling shows, with a wealth of illustrations, how the boldness and brilliance of the sets and costumes mark out "Things to Come "as British cinema's greatest contribution to the science fiction genre, amply justifying his judgement that ""Things to Come "is to modernism as "Blade Runner" is to postmodernism."

Sir Christopher Frayling was until recently Rector of the Royal College of Art, Chair of Arts Council England, a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum and a Governor of the BFI. An award-winning broadcaster on radio and television, He has written widely on film and culture.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.1995
Reihe/Serie	BFI Film Classics
Zusatzinfo	illustrations, notes, bibliography
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 190 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-85170-480-8 / 0851704808
ISBN-13	978-0-85170-480-7 / 9780851704807
Zustand	Neuware