Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywood Art Direction
&#8220;[Designs on Film] traces the art of building pretend worlds. Starting back in the pre-talkie years, and moving through Hollywood&#8217;s golden age and the epic-crazy &#8216;60s, right up to contemporary Hollywood, the book is packed with insider tidbits about the wildly inventive&#151;and improvisational&#151;business of movie-making.&#8221; (Wall Street Journal)&#8220;Whitlock makes a major contribution to movie literature by saluting undersung production designers, set decorators and art directors.&#8221; (Los Angeles Times)&#8220;An amazing glimpse into art direction.&#8221; (The New Yorker)&#8220;This lush book of pictures and drawings showcases big-screen glamour over the decades, from the opulence ofCleopatrato the more modern majesty ofBatman. (Entertainment Weekly)&#8220;A compendium of images celebrating iconic interiors and architecture&#8230;.[Whitlock] sifted through decades of archival photographs to assemble this rare glimpse into the world of Hollywood art direction and set design. &#8221; (Dwell)