Learning from Hollywood - 2. rev. Aufl.

Vorw. v. Wolfgang Jacobsen. Dtsch.-Engl.

Hans Dieter Schaal

1/2010
SCHAAL, HANS DIETER.

Learning from Hollywood - Architektur und Film. Vorw. von Wolfgang Jacobsen. 2. rev. Aufl. Stuttgart 2010. 4to. 128 S. mit 120 Abb., Ppbd. - Text in dt. & engl. Sprache.

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Hollywood is not only the secret world capital of dreams and the fictions of the subconscious, but also the capital of architecture. Hollywood is the Rome and the Versailles of the 20th and 21st centuries. A new awareness of space spanning the entire world was created here. These backgrounds, stage sets and filmic spaces are indelibly fixed in every spectator's mind. It may be in the cinema that the first time you saw the desert, the Rocky Mountain cliffs, Greenland's glacier mountains and California's sandy beaches. You saw here the Western saloons and Al Capone's dark rooms, the poor Mexicans' huts and the Kennedys' penthouse apartments; you saw here also the jazz clubs of New Orleans and the dream houses in Los Angeles. There was and is scarcely a corner of the earth that the Hollywood film has not dreamed its way into. Every cinema-goer in the world sees the same plot, the same images, the same faces, the same rooms, buildings, towns and streets. Film's power to bring people together can scarcely be overestimated. Film architecture is world architecture. All other architecture - your own town, your own street, your own house, your own flat - remains small and parochial in the face of this, restricted to affecting a very tiny sphere .

Hollywood is not only the secret world capital of dreams and the fictions of the subconscious, but also the capital of architecture. Hollywood is the Rome and the Versailles of the 20th and 21st centuries. A new awareness of space spanning the entire world was created here. These backgrounds, stage sets and filmic spaces are indelibly fixed in every spectator's mind. It may be in the cinema that the first time you saw the desert, the Rocky Mountain cliffs, Greenland's glacier mountains and California's sandy beaches. You saw here the Western saloons and Al Capone's dark rooms, the poor Mexicans' huts and the Kennedys' penthouse apartments; you saw here also the jazz clubs of New Orleans and the dream houses in Los Angeles. There was and is scarcely a corner of the earth that the Hollywood film has not dreamed its way into. Every cinema-goer in the world sees the same plot, the same images, the same faces, the same rooms, buildings, towns and streets. Film's power to bring people together can scarcely be overestimated. Film architecture is world architecture. All other architecture - your own town, your own street, your own house, your own flat - remains small and parochial in the face of this, restricted to affecting a very tiny sphere .

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Arch.-Gesch.:20.Jh.  Film-Genre:Architek  Filmarchitektur  Hollywoodfilme