BackFilm Posters of the 50s
(book in English)
by Tony Nourmand and Graham Marsh
- Type
- Photos
- Subject
- On Films > Posters
- posters, 1950s
- Publishing Date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Taschen
- Collection
- (no collection)
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 127 pages
9 ¾ x 11 ½ inches (24.5 x 29.5 cm) - ISBN-10
ISBN-13 - 3-8228-4521-3
978-3-8228-4521-9 - User Ratings
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Book Presentation:
The cinema of the 1950s reflected the mood swings of the post-war generation. Optimistic epics and brittle social comedies rubbed shoulders with socially aware dramas and, faced with the new challenge of television, the studios conjured up a host of fresh attractions: CinemaScope, Vista-Vision and 3D, the curves of Marilyn Monroe and the moody mumbles of Marlon Brando and James Dean. In Hollywood, veteran actors circled the wagons against the massed assault of juvenile delinquents as the Wild West became the Asphalt Jungle. In Britain, upper lips remained stiff - though a smile or two was permitted at the latest Ealing Comedy. Films from Italy and France, where the 'New Wave' was starting to break, were still considered strictly high culture, if not threateningly risque, in the Anglophone nations. The images in this book represent the full range of poster art which attracted world wide cinema audiences to the movies of the decade. Some may be familiar, others, long forgotten, will come as surprises. Most are still as fresh and powerful as the day they first appeared.
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