Polly Platt - Hollywood Production Design and Creative Authorship (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)

This book examines the career and creative labour of production designer Polly Platt. It focuses mainly on her contributions to 1970s Hollywood, but also considers her later work. Considering films such as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, The Bad News Bears, and The Witches of Eastwick, it argues that Platt's construction of their visual palette and mise-en-scene was so creative and so comprehensive that it can be considered authorial. Chapters discuss Platt's life and its influence on her work, her attention to detail, her role in location decisions and costume design, and her use of colour. An epilogue discusses her later career as a producer and her mentorship to young filmmakers like Cameron Crowe and Wes Anderson. This is the first full-length examination of the career of one of the women practitioners whose work was so important to 1970s cinema, and provides an alternative methodology to the auteur-driven framing that so regularly defines the era.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	2023
First published:	2021
Authors:	Aaron Hunter
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	226
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-082122-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > General
LSN:	3-03-082122-6
Barcode:	9783030821227

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