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Book Recommendation
"Tuismes" by Marie Daerrieussecq
It`s a funny and disturbing tale of a woman who is literally transformed by her new jod in a massage parlor: she is slowly turns into a pig.
A clever moral fable about sex and the beauty business, part Kafka and part "Animal Farm," it is now being filmed by Jean-Luc Godard, and has just came out in English as "Pig Tales."
Film Recommendation
Many directors have strenghtened their films through the use of a rich vocabulary of film techniques, a strong sense of film structure and a dramatic awareness of the built environment. Eisenstein, Lang, and Hitchcock actually began thier career as designers. Their films were developed through effective use of montage, rhythm and repetition, synchronization of images and other cinematic techniques.
Metropolis, Fritz Lang
Early 20th Centry Fear of Industrializaton
Social Strata, Development of an Urban Underclass,
Expressionism, Constructivism, Futurism, Modernism
1984, Michael Radford
The search for Identity in Totalitarian Society, potential Use of Media for Political Control,
Design of Minimal Evironments, Mis-en-scene
Koyanisquaatsi, Jeff Reggio
The Impact of Mechanization on the Design of Cities Time, Space, Scale and Speed of Urban Environments Experimental Film Techniques to Alter Point-of-View
Brazil, Terry Gilliam
Information, Infrastructure and the Urban Bureaucracy Techniques of Political Staire, Visual Exaggeration, Pop Art, Postmodernism and Deconstructivism in Film
To Live, Chang Yimou
Pre-Revolutionary Society, The Cultural Revolution Irony as a Literary Device, Plot, Characterization Epic Films, Signs and Symbols, Color and Technique
The Water Machine, Steven Shachter
Inventor`s struggle, Forces that Prevent Success
Design of a Community in Early 20th Centry America
Evironmental Impact of Oil, Design Imagery& Symbols
The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan
Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock
Architecture as an Element of Film Structure
Medieval Towns vs. Modern Concepts of Community
Public and Private Space, The Picturesque Design
Brideshead Revisited, Charles Sturridge and Michael Linsay-Hogg
European Aristocracy prior to World War I
The Manor House, Life in an English University
Integration of Architecture and Interior Elements
Citizen Kane, Orson Welles
The Medieval Castle in aa Modern Context
Design as an Element of Film Structure
Lighting that Enhances the Drama of Architecture
A Man for All Seasons, Fred Zinneman
The Struggle with which led to the Reformation in England Historical Paralles Between Philosophy and Design Baroque Architecture, Perspective, Depth of Field
The Atomic Cafe, Rafferty and Loder
Atomic Energy Issues, 50`s Government Propaganda Documentary Techniques, Use of Archival Footage American Vernacular Design, Music and Image
Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein
The American Dream, Barbara Kopple
Film as a Tool for Social and Political Statements
Documentary Techniques, Composition within the Frame Montage, Methods of Photographing Built Environments
2001:A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick
Things to come, William Menzies
Design and Invention in Film, The Computerized House Space Technology, Zero Gravity Environment, Isolation, Minimalism, Rhythm and Repetition
TO BE CONTINUED... ^^
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