Designing Dreams: Modern Architecture in the Movies

Explores Modern Architecture In Film Sets Of The 1920s And 1930s Including A Comparison Of Architectural Photographs With Movie Stills. Chapter 1 Covers A Brief History Of Modern Architecture From 1925 Through 1939. Chapter 2 Gives An Overview Of Film Decor Before Its Designers Adopted Modernism In The Mid-1920s. Chapters 3 And 4 Run Chronologically Through Four Periods Between 1916 And 1939 And Chart The First Steps, Breakthrough, Dissemination, And Decline Of Modern Architecture In Movies. Chapter 5 Examines Nine Specific Types Of Modern Film Decor. Projecting The New Architecture -- Building The Seventh Art -- Europe At The Forefront -- Hollywood Unlimited -- The Modern Mystique – Epilogue – Notes – Filmography – Bibliography – Index. Donald Albrecht. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 191-195. Filmography: P. 179-189.