Cinema Builders

by Edwin Heathcote

Cinema Builders outlines the history of the cinema as a quintessentially modern building type, which embodies fantasy and escape in another realm. It examines the relationship of the development of film to the architecture of the cinema itself; the advent of sound and the replacement of the theatre as an urban attraction. Cinema Builders charts the metamorphosis of cinema architecture from traditional theatre structures to a new breed of cinema building,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471491381
• ISBN13: 9780471491385
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Academy Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.2" x 12.2"