Saul Bass Anatomy of Film Design

You’ll love this film design book if:

• You’re a fan of Saul Bass and his work
  
• You want to learn more about how graphic design plays a role in filmmaking
• You’re looking for an inside look at the creative process of a prominent designer like Saul Bass

Graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Saul Bass (1920-1996) developed an iconic style evident throughout his expansive repertoire. His style, and especially his influence on the storytelling potential of opening credits, has influences numerous films and television series.

In Saul Bass: Anatomy of Film Design, author Jan-Christopher Horak examines the life, work, and creative process of this prominent designer. Discover the humble beginnings of Bass’s life, his collaborations with prominent directors like Robert Aldrich, Stanley Kubrick, and Martin Scorsese, and learn more about his personal style, like his appreciation of modern art and subsequent incorporation of it into his body of work.

In Saul Bass you’ll find:

• A detailed study and exploration of the creative process of the master of film title design
  
• A look at the lasting impact Bass’s style has had on film and television
• Discussion of the blending of graphic design and film design

About the author:

Jan-Christopher Horak is director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive, editor of Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919-1945, and author of Dream Merchants: Making and Selling Films in Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Reviews:

This is a detailed study of one the most important and influential graphic designers in the history cinema, done by one of the most distinguished and knowledgeable film archivists and historians in the discipline, and is a first rate piece of work. Horak is one of the field's top scholars, and this massively detailed, superbly written book brings every facet of Bass's career to life, from main title designer to director in his own right. -- Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Streaming: Movies, Media and Instant Access

Self-aggrandizing and committed to notions of creativity as ineffable intuition, visualist Saul Bass has long been an elusive object for study within cinema. But combining his well-known acumen in the archives with his equally masterful understanding of the complexities of modernist experiment as it meets American populism, film historian Jan-Christopher Horak offers a sharp, trenchant analysis of Bass's works and aesthetic philosophy and well captures the meanings of the Bass brand and its stylistic and thematic regularities. This is an important volume for scholars of cinema as well as anyone interested in visual design in relation to moving image culture. -- Dana Polan, Cinema Studies, New York University

SKU                                T8456

Author/Speaker/Editor       Jean-Christopher Horak

File/Trim Size                       6 x 9

Format                              Hardcover

ISBN 13                             9780813147185

Number Of Pages            492