Screen Interiors: From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias

Screen Interiors offers innovative perspectives on film design, exploring how interior spaces can facilitate action, amplify tensions, and contribute to the construction of identities. It includes case studies and illustrations from a range of films, focusing on class, sexuality, and identity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 06 May 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Screen Interiors is a comprehensive exploration of film design, encompassing a wide range of topics from Hollywood films to Soviet cinema, LGBTQ spaces to spaceships, horror architecture, and action scenes. The book presents an array of innovative perspectives on film design, tackling issues related to interiors and objects in film and television from the early 1900s to the present day.

In essays, authors delve into the ways in which interior film design can facilitate action and amplify tensions, how rooms are employed as structural devices, and how designed spaces contribute to the construction of identities. Case studies examine disjunctions between interior and exterior design and the inter-relationship of production design and narrative.

The book employs a lens on class, sexuality, and identity across a diverse range of films, including Twilight of a Woman's Soul (1913), The Servant (1963), Caravaggio (1986), and Passengers (2016). It is richly illustrated with film stills throughout, showcasing an array of methodological approaches for the study of film and design history.

Screen Interiors is a valuable resource for scholars, students, and enthusiasts of film and design, offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary perspective on the art and craft of cinematic storytelling.

Weight: 746g
Dimension: 161 x 241 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350150584