Carteles De LA Epoca De Oro Del Cine Mexicano/Poster Art from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema
Contributors: Guillermo Vaidovits (Translator); David Wilt (Translator); Rogelio Agrasanchez (Translator); David Rodriguez (Translator)
Edition: 1. ed. bilingue edition
Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr
Published: January 1998
Language: eng; spa
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780292704855
Subjects: Films, cinema; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Illustration & commercial art; Film & Video - General; General; Advertising Art; Motion Pictures (Specific Aspects); Performing Arts; Art
Description: This stunning collection is the first to focus solely on Mexico's rich cinematic Golden Age (1936-1957). It reproduces more than 200 poster-all in full color-from extensive holdings of the Agrasanchez Archive, the largest private collection of Mexican cinema in the world. - Back cover.

The posters are accompanied by an extensive introduction by film critic and historian Charles Ramirez Berg. It includes an analysis of teh graphic design of the posters, which are arranged in seven sections: comedy, cabaret girls, charros and folklore, social drama, history and religion, mystery and adventure, and melodrama. - Back cover.