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Polly PlattHollywood production design and creative authorship /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Polly Plattby Aaron Hunter.
Reminder of title:	Hollywood production design and creative authorship /
Author:	Hunter, Aaron.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 226 p.) :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Motion picture art directorsBiography.United States
Subject:	Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82120-3
ISBN:	9783030821203$q(electronic bk.)

Polly PlattHollywood production design and creative authorship /
Hunter, Aaron.

Polly PlattHollywood production design and creative authorship /[electronic resource] :by Aaron Hunter. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021. - 1 online resource (xii, 226 p.) :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.

Introduction -- Section One: Production Designer -- Chapter One: Set Design and Attention to Detail. - Chapter Two: Location and Design -- Chapter Three: Colour -- Chapter Four: Costume and Production Design -- Chapter Five: Design, Character, Narrative -- Section Two: Producer -- Chapter Six: James L. Brooks -- Chapter Seven: Mentoring New Filmmakers -- Conclusion.

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-scène 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. Aaron Hunter lectures in the department of film at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His monograph Authoring Hal Ashby: The Myth of the New Hollywood Auteur (2016) constructs an alternative, multiple-authorship framework for understanding New Hollywood, an approach he continues in this work on Polly Platt. His collection Women and New Hollywood, co-edited with Martha Shearer, will be published in 2022.

ISBN: 9783030821203$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-82120-3doiSubjects--Personal Names:

913303
Platt, Polly.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

443988
Motion picture art directors
--United States--Biography.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

175717
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)

LC Class. No.: PN1998.3.P53 / H86 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 791.430232092

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