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Constellation

Retrofuturism: aesthetic impact of space design on screen culture

Created by Isabella Hone-Saunders

Featured in this constellation

Heavenly Bodies

Aelita: Queen of Mars

Barbarella [DVD]

The Girl from Tomorrow. Ep 1-3

The Jetsons

Production design in Heavenly Bodies

Humans have long imagined the future, including prospective travel to space and what living life away from planet earth could look like. This extending to designing interiors of domestic spaces and how these have then influenced the aesthetics of screen culture through set building and design.

Heavenly Bodies → The Jetsons