Film by design : the art of the movie poster /

Movie posters, regardless of their country of origin, have become indelibly linked with the films they represent, often assuming a status as visual encapsulations of films within collective memory. Long after their initial role in promotion is complete, these posters endure as iconic images, etched...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Rhodes, Gary Don, 1972- (Editor), Singer, Robert, 1953 May 30- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024].
Subjects:	Film posters > History. Motion picture industry > History. Motion pictures in art. Advertising > Motion pictures. Commercial art.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Posting the cinema / Gary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer
Chapter 2: Lurid disgrace or artful advertising? The American movie poster, 1916-1934 / Gary D. Rhodes
Chapter 3: Pushing the limits of the para: the industrial complications of second-wave exploitation film posters as paratext / Alicia Kozma
Chapter 4: Print, publicity, and place: intersecting histories of cinemas in India (1930s-60s) / Madhuja Mukherjee
Chapter 5: The Cuban film poster: revolution by design / Laura Hatry
Chapter 6: Meaningful posters and postcolonial melancholia: Black Girl, Touki Bouki, and Cuties / Vlad Dima
Chapter 7: Silent Running: art and eco-memory / Michael L. Shuman
Chapter 8: Creature from the Black Lagoon and beyond / Frank Percaccio
Chapter 9: Shutter Island: a doppelgänger's dream / Courtney Ruffner Grieneisen
Chapter 10: Abandoned cars and bending skyscrapers: architectural disjuncture in M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening" / Lynette Kuliyeva
Chapter 11: Round like a circle in a sprial: the poster art of film noir / Marlisa Santos
Chapter 12: Marketing the beastly: Lang's Human Desire / Robert Singer
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