Manuel Fontana ls, esc enógrafo del cine mexicano Manuel Fontanals, Mexican Cinema Stage Designer Elisa Lozano, coordinator Getting to cinema from the arts, that was the calling of Catalan artist Manuel Fontanals. Exiled because of the Franco regime, he reached Mexico in 1937 and in few years he became one of the leading stage designers of the Golden Age of Cinema in this country, with a career including over 200 pictures, three times winner of the Ariel, and analyzed in every aspect in these pages, as fond as rigorous, written by prominent specialists in cinema. 29 UNAM Foreign Rights 2015 By the same author Lights, Camera, Action! Cinematographers of Mexican Cinema, 1931-2010 Elisa Lozano Álvarez imcine/Cineteca Nacional/Festival International du Film d’Amiens Tina Modotti. A New Regard Jesús Nieto Sotelo and Elisa Lozano Álvarez cnca/Centro de la Imagen/ Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos About the author Elisa Lozano (Mexico City, 1964) is an Art Historian and independent researcher, author of several research works on cinematography and contemporary cinema stage design. As a curator and iconographic researcher she has participated in projects and exhibitions for the Museum of Modern Art (Mexico), the Image Centre and the Cervantino International Festival, among others. Readership • Film and art students, filmmakers • Architects, directors and stage designers • Film historians 1st edition, unam, Mexico 2014 Size: 9 in x 12.20 in 978-607-02-5983-8 MSRP $50.95 USD “A book that focuses on the analysis of the contributions of this versatile Catalan stage designer” Guadalupe Ferrer • Fontanals has been regarded as one of the best stage designers in Mexican cinema. • This edition outstands because of the beauty of its color photographs and the enjoyable readability of its critical essays. • It features a number of drawings and sketches by Fontanals and his complete filmography in Mexico.
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