Contributions

  • Chibnall, Steve - Contributor

Publication

2006 - BFI, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

76,000 words, Guess

Page Count

304 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL17219099M
  • ISBN-139781844571482
  • ISBN-101844571483
  • OCLC Control Number72150958
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  • LibraryThing3379064

Classifications

  • LCCPN1995.9.P5 B73 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

Other Editions

  • British film postersBFI2006

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