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Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema presents for the first time a comparative study of European film set design in the late 1920s and 1930s. Based on a wealth of designers' drawings, film stills and archival documents, the book offers a new insight into the development and significance of transnational artistic collaboration during this period. European cinema from the late 1920s to the late 1930s was famous for its attention to detail in terms of set design and visual effect. Focusing on developments in Britain, France, and Germany, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the practices, styles, and function of cinematic production design during this period, and its influence on subsequent filmmaking patterns.

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Sarah Street is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol. She is co-author (with Margaret Dickinson) of 'Cinema and State: the Film Industry and the British Government, 1927-84' (BFI, 1985); author of 'British National Cinema' (Routledge, 1997); 'British Cinema in Documents' (Routledge, 2000); 'Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the USA' (Continuum 2002) and 'Black Narcissus' (I.B. Tauris, 2004). She has co-edited several books including 'European Cinema' (with Jill Forbes), published by Macmillan/Palgrave, 2000.

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