| Ken Adam is acknowledged as the world's
greatest living production designer: creator of the look
of the James Bond films, winner of Oscars for Stanley Kubrick's
Barry Lyndon and the film version of Alan Bennett's The
Madness of King George. Now he explains his own scarcely
understood contribution to the art of cinema.
Ken Adam is a German who left Germany in the 1930s - and
his work was heavily influenced by the German Expressionist
cinema of that time. After serving in the RAF during the
war, he became involved in production design in 1948, getting
his first Art Director credit on Around the World in Eighty
Days in 1956. Since then he has designed 75 films, creating
the bold and revolutionary designs for the first seven James
Bond movies, as well as the startling war room in Kubrick's
Dr. Strangelove.
Since 1999 an exhibition of Adam's work has been travelling
around the world, but the force and variety of his achievements
in cinema have not been properly acknowledged until this
volume, in which Christopher Frayling expertly conducts
a career-length interview with a man whose designs have
enriched some of the great films of our time.
UK
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