Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywood Art Direction

I have nothing bad to say about this book at all and it's well worth the cost. This is everything old Hollywood and it presented in a great book. The photos are all excellent quality and there's plenty of pictures.....you're not paying for just text. The text has great information and explains everything you're seeing....or not seeing. If you love classic Hollywood, I'd highly recommend this book for a look back at the history of movies!!

This is an incredible book! I use it as a text book for my class on the History of Production Design. The photos and the text are excellent. It is a great book and I highly recommend it.

I loved the book. I Wish it had more pictures. But there are never enough pictures in a book like this.

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It`s beautifully printed glorious book on history of production design. Except it is only a photo book with VERY little of text for the latter to be of a ANY value. I`d rather have a book that is written by a movie professional than a journalist. Very decorative book but that`s its only value - there is no informational value at all or very little of it. I hoped to have an in depth discussion on production design and how it influences the audience perception of both the characters and the stroyline. But instead there is just a collection of the best examples of set designs over the 100 years. If you are looking for that - then it`s the book for you. If you are looking for something more informative the pass it on.

Beautiful book!

Save your money. The idea of this book is good but it just doesn't deliver. Most of the pictures have been published in other books and many of the pictures don't have much to do with film production design...they're just pretty pictures from the movie or a publicity still photo. There's not enough information about the artists or production designers and the small amount of actual written material is bland, not very informative and full of factual errors. This book needed a lot more research, better photo choices and missed the chance to publish unusual, interesting drawings from art directors and production designers. A new book about film production design would be great, but this book isn't it.

What great photos and text. Love this retrospective of scenic design in Hollywood.