Design and Popular Entertainment

by Emily King

Design and Popular Entertainment offers a selection of nine essays that examine the range of design for popular entertainment, from theatre and film, to television and radio. Investigating entertainment design from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s, the book is divided into two sections. The first addresses the 'hardware' of popular entertainment, in other words the objects through which images, sound and performance are transmitted. The second...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719080169
• ISBN13: 9780719080166
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.3"