- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre / Not Applicable (Nov 1 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0374523606
- ISBN-13: 978-0374523602
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 21.3 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 816 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Presents the history of black-cast films through their posters, covering the years from 1915 to 1965 with two hundred full-color reproductions and a brief text that places the films in a social and cultural context.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The black cinema comes into the light.,
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This review is from: A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black-Cast Posters (Paperback)
I doubt any future book will cover the subject of black cast movie posters as well as this one. As a designer interested in the look of popular culture I was surprised that there were so many posters for this niche market. Over two-hundred are shown in this very well designed book (thanks to Debbie Glasserman) they are all in color and each has a very detailed caption. I must say though that as designs they are all uniformly uninspiring (except for Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1927 and The Green Pastures, 1936) but what they lack in stylish graphics and type they make up for in an exuberance of color, flamboyant images plus huge angled titles and cast lists, all to put across what the movie was about and pull the customer into a downtown picture palace. Donald Bogle writes a short essay on the history of black movies but strangely makes no comment about the posters or who produced them. John Kisch, who collects black cast movie posters suggests in his Author's Note that frequently the poster artwork was more interesting than the movie itself. Get this book if you are into the graphic history of American movies, it covers one small historical part and does it very well.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The black cinema comes into the light.,
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This review is from: A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black-Cast Posters (Paperback)
I doubt any future book will cover the subject of black cast movie posters as well as this one. As a designer interested in the look of popular culture I was surprised that there were so many posters for this niche market. Over two-hundred are shown in this very well designed (thanks to Debbie Glasserman) book, they are all in colour and each has a very detailed caption about the movie and its stars. I must say though that as designs they are all uniformly uninspiring (except for Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1927 and The Green Pastures, 1936) but what they lack in stylish graphics they make up for in an exuberance of colour, flamboyant images and sometimes huge angled titles and cast lists, all to put across what the movie was about and pull the customer into a downtown picture palace. Donald Bogle writes a short essay on the history of black movies but strangely makes no comment about the posters or who produced them. John Kisch, who collects black cast movie posters suggests in his Author's Note that frequently the poster artwork was more interesting than the movie itself. Get this book if you are into the graphic history of American movies, it covers one small historical part and does it very well.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The black cinema comes into the light.,
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This review is from: A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black-Cast Posters (Hardcover)
I doubt any future book will cover the subject of black-cast movie posters as well as this one. As a designer interested in the look of popular culture I was surprised that there were so many posters for this niche market. Over two-hundred are shown in this very well designed (thanks to Debbie Glasserman) book, they are all in colour and each has a very detailed caption about the movie and its stars. I must say though that as designs they are all uniformly uninspiring (except for Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1927 and The Green Pastures, 1936) but what they lack in stylish graphics they make up for in an exuberance of colour, flamboyant images and sometimes huge angled titles and cast lists, all to put across what the movie was about and pull the customer into a downtown picture palace.Donald Bogle writes a short essay on the history of black movies but strangely makes no comment about the posters or who produced them. John Kisch, who collects black-cast movie posters suggests in his Author's Note that frequently the poster artwork was more interesting than the movie itself. Get this book if you are into the graphic history of American movies, it covers one small historical part and does it very well.
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