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About The Art Of The B Movie Poster
Product Description Exploding off the page with over 1,000 of the best examples of exploitation, grindhouse, and pulp film poster design comes The Art of the B-Movie Poster, a collection of incredible posters from low-budget films from the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. Once relegated to the underground and midnight movie circuit, these films and their bombastic advertisements are experiencing a surge of mainstream popularity driven by fans appreciative of the artistic skill, distinctive aesthetic, and unabashed sensationalism they relied on to make a profit, with the quality of the poster often far surpassing that of the film itself. The book celebrates this tradition with sections divided into "moral panic" films, action, horror, sci-fi, and of course, sex, each introduced with short essays by genre experts such as Kim Newman, Eric Schaffer, Simon Sheridan, Vern, and author Stephen Jones, winner of the Horror Writer's Association 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Non-Fiction. Edited by Adam Newell and featuring an introduction by author and filmmaker Pete Tombs, The Art of the B-Movie Poster is a loving tribute to the artwork and artists that brought biker gangs, jungle girls, James Bond rip-offs and reefer heads to life for audiences around the world. Review '. . . one more seminal text is about to be added to the canon: THE ART OF THE B-MOVIE POSTER from Gingko Press. The book is a veritable photographic study of exploitation advertising, interspersed with essays discussing the evolution of grindhouse cinema from the 30s until the death of Times Square. The text is a massive undertaking, and contains what seems to be reprints of nearly every movie poster to have ever graced Times Square, the Tenderloin, and your local dive theatre.' --Rue Morgue Magazine 'The Art of the B-Movie Poster offers a stark contrast to the current climate, where movie posters is slapped together in Photoshop with little artistic integrity for digital consumption. More than a mere coffee table art book (although it makes a great one), Newell's effort doubles as a marketing case study. It just so happens that the advertisements celebrate graphic and exploitative images. That's what I call educational and fun.' --Broke Horror Fan 'This is an amazing coffee table book that no self-respecting exploitation movie fan could walk past and not open it up and slowly start to page through.' --Kitley's Krypt
