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Out of stock | | | | | | Through authoritative commentary and revealing interviews with key figures in the film-making process, Building Fantasies explores trends and digital visualisation methods, charting the history of the sci-fi film genre from the 1960s to the present. It also introduces the key developments in technology, including advances in computer visualisation. | | | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Matt Hanson | | Hardcover: | 176 pages | | Publisher: | Not Avail | | Publication Date: | 2005-06 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 288046787X | | Package Length: | 10.31 inches | | Package Width: | 9.13 inches | | Package Height: | 1.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.51 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 2 reviews |
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Concept City Designers Might Be Interested Sep 04, 2008
By Parka
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2KQT52YI1R6F5 This book takes you behind the scenes to look at how sci-fi cities are created. It showcases some of the definitive movies in the science fiction genre, from 1982 up to 2004. You'll get to see how designs have evolved with time, and judge for yourself if they have withstood the change of time.
There are interviews with directors, designers and crew working on the set. They explain the process of conceptualizing the city set designs and their symbolism and function to the movie.
The pages are filled with lots of movie stills and a few design sketches.
Here's a list of the movies featured:
* Blade Runner
* Tron
* Dune
* Brazil
* Batman
* Patlabor
* Total Recall
* Alien
* Memories
* The City of Lost Children
* Johnny Mnemonic
* The Fifth Element
* Starship Troopers
* Dark city
* Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
* A.I. Artificial Intelligence
* Metropolic
* Minority Report
* Solaris
* Code 46
* The Matrix Revolutions
* Wonderful Days
* Natural City
* i, Robot
* Appleseed
* Immortel
* Casshern
* Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
* 2046
* Innocence: Ghost in the Shell 2
As you can see from the list, there are anime movies as well as European movies included.
This book is recommended to all sci-fi movie fans, particularly those who make a living designing and conceptualizing for a living.
(More pictures are available on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Not as complete as I would have liked... Aug 23, 2006
By Michael Valdivielso
The Science Behind The Fiction: Building Sci-Fi Moviescapes is a good behind the scenes look at how the cities and landscapes of futuristic movies have been designed, from Blade Runner in 1982 to Innocence: Ghost In The Shell II made in 2004. I truly enjoyed the book, but some chapters, such as the one on Appleseed barely touched on the movie while other chapters, like the one on Immortel seemed to go on for pages without really saying anything.
And why have Ghost In The Shell II but not the first Ghost In The Shell? And why start at 1982? Why not start earlier? The book was good but could be better.
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