Title: British film posters
First published: 2006
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.
Subjects: Graphic artists, Film posters, History, Films, cinema, History of specific subjects, Poster art, Performing Arts, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, Cinema/Film: Book, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Commercial - General, Film & Video - History & Criticism, Performing Arts / General, Film & Video - General, General, Graphic arts, Artists, great britain
Places: Great Britain
LC classification: PN1995.9.P5 B73 2006