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A century of movie posters : from silent to art house / Emily King.

by King, Emily. (Travel writer)

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[Hauppauge, NY] : Barron's, 2003.

Film posters -- Pictorial works.

224 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.

Birth of a cinema: Man with the Movie Camera -- October -- D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille -- German Expressionist Film -- Charalie Chaplin -- Jazz Singer -- Rise and fall of the studios: Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich -- Gangster Movies -- Walt Disney -- 1950s horror -- Musicals -- Casablanca -- Citizen Kane -- Alfred Hitchcock -- Saul Bass -- Howard Hawks -- Billy wilder -- Audrey Hepburn -- James Dean -- Jean Renoir -- Ealing Comedies -- Italian watercolour posters -- Jane Russell and Rita Hayworth -- New wave and blockbusters: Cuban film posters -- Polish film posters -- Czech film posters -- French new wave -- Jean-Luc Godard -- Joseph Mankiewicz -- British films of the 1960s -- Peter Strausfeld -- Ingmar Bergman -- Luis Bunuel -- Federico Fellini -- James Bond -- Clint Eastwood -- Michelangelo Antonioni -- Stanley Kubrick -- 2001: Space Odyssey -- Beatles -- Exhibitionists -- US Counter-Cultural Cinema -- Midnight Cowboy -- Jack Nicholson -- Barbarella -- Francis Ford Coppola -- Martin Scorsese - Woody Allen -- Last Tango in Paris -- John Cassavetes -- Bollywood -- Star Wars -- Bob Peak -- Dawn of the multiplex: Spike Lee -- Wings of Desire -- Krzysztof Kieslowski -- China's Fifth Generation -- 1980s French Style -- Ridley Scott -- Julian Schnabel -- Jim Jarmusch and Andrzej Klimowski -- Coen Brothers -- David Lynch -- Steven Spielberg -- Pedro Almodovar and Juan Gatti -- Peter Greenaway -- Trainspotting -- Quentin Tarantino -- Silence of the Lambs -- Dogme 95 -- Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro -- Richard Linklater -- Harmony Korine -- Gus Van Sant -- Mike Leigh -- Makhmalbafs -- Ken Loach -- Tim Burton -- Bazmark Films -- 21st-Century Escapism -- Selected bibliography -- Biographies of selected artists -- Index.

Film buffs, graphic designers, and art students will relish this beautifully produced and strikingly illustrated volume. Arranged in roughly chronological order, it brings together movie posters from around the world, starting with Charlie Chaplin film ads and the Russian Revolutionary movie posters of the 1910s, then spanning the century to show posters publicizing hits of the 1990s, including The Silence of the Lambs, Spike Lee films, and many more. The books sections focus on renowned individual designers, directors, movies, and genres. Important poster designers such as Saul Bass, Jan Lenica, and Juan Gatti receive particular attention, as do great directors who had strong opinions about how their films should be represented. Among the latter are Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, and Otto Preminger. All major film genres are represented musicals, Kung Fu movies, films noir, westerns (including so-called spaghetti westerns filmed in Italy), science fiction classics, and others. Readers are treated to examples of movie posters not only from the United States, Britain, and France, but also to previously unpublished examples from countries as diverse as Poland, China, and Cuba. For instance, fans of Orson Welles might be surprised to see the previously unpublished Italian poster advertising Citizen Kane under its Italian title, Quarto Potere (The Fourth Estate). This handsome volume will be valued by graphic designers, poster collectors, and anyone sharing the popular passion for cinema.

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