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The future in the past: Hollywood and the art deco utopia

Kevin Jack Hagopian

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Howard Mandelbaum and Eric Myers. Screen Deco: A Celebration of High Style in Hollywood. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. ix + 209 pp. $24.95 cloth; $15.95 paper. Donald Albrecht. Designing Dreams: Modern Architecture in the Movies. New York: Harper and Row (in collaboration with Museum of Modern Art), 1986. ix + 203 pp. $19.95 cloth.

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Key concepts: Hollywood, Art, Art history, Utopia, Style (visual arts), Performance art, Architecture, Visual arts