British film posters
Subtitle: an illustrated history
By: Sim Branaghan ; edited by Steve Chibnall
Contributors: Chibnall, Steve
Publisher: BFI
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781844571482; 9781844572212
Subjects: Film posters -- Great Britain -- History; Graphic artists -- Great Britain
Description: The book explores illustrated film posters from their emergence in the late Victorian period as an offshoot of the variety/theatrical posters of the period, to the rapid decline of the illustrated, or handpainted, tradition in the mid-1980s, and to the subsequent arrival of computer desktop publishing. The overall theme of the book is that vintage film posters represent a significant and coherent movement in British popular art of the twentieth century, which has until now been overlooked and undocumented.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-299) and index