Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. "Not Everything You Draw Shows Up in the Shot!"
• 1. The Paramount Years: "We All Wore Suits and Ties"
• 2. The Hitchcock Films: "Never in My Wildest Dreams!"
• 3. Universal Studios, Robert Mulligan, and To Kill a Mockingbird
• 4. Working with George Roy Hill: From Dresden to Venice and Everywhere in Between
• 5. The Eastwood Films: "Clint Does His Homework"
• 6. Final Takes on a Handful of Favorites
• Toward a Conclusion
• Notes
• Filmography
• Selected Bibliography
• Index

Promotional Information

This popularly written and extensively illustrated book tells the intertwining stories of Henry Bumstead's career and the evolution of Hollywood art direction.

About the Author

Andrew Horton is the Jeanne H. Smith Professor of Film Studies and Director of the Film and Video Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, and an award-winning screenwriter who wrote Brad Pitt’s first feature film.

Reviews

"Dear Bummy, You take the BS out of filmmaking!" Clint Eastwood's comment on Henry Bumstead's receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998 from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Art Directors "Making a movie with Bummy was always a pleasure because it was like going to work with a good friend who also had a fine, artistic eye, who shared your vision, and who knew infinitely more about the practical nuts-and-bolts business of putting a story on camera than you did... Everything he designed served the movie. He knew how to visually bring it to life." Robert Mulligan " ... Henry Bumstead and the WOrld of Hollywood Art Direction is essential reading for anyone intested in this crucial aspect of filmmaking."--FILM INTERNATIONAL Issue 18 2005:6