British Film Posters

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