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Hitchcock & Selznick: Making Rebecca's Gothic Manderley (1940)

Covers the production design of Manderley, the mansion at the story's center, and how its scale and gothic detail were built to feel oppressive despite the character never fully controlling it visually.

Cinema Cities · 12 min · Intermediate · DES · Production Design · 2018

What you take away

Design a central location to feel unownable by your protagonist, even while she lives in it.

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