Movie Poster by Emily King

Movie Poster by Emily King

The book is structured chronologically with chapters covering four key eras in the history of the movies and illustrates the important movie posters of each time focusing on influential designers, directors, movies, and genres. It includes famous designers such as Saul Bass and Bob Peak who are recognized for a poster style that is inimitably their own, and key directors who had a strong influence on the design of their movie's posters such as Alfred Hitchcock and Spike Lee. The book also covers the various posters designed for films from "Citizen Kane", to "The Godfather", to "2001: A Space Odyssey". The text is lively and accessible.

..a glittering mix of lush art work and insightful text" Total Film "Wonderful illustrations" The Scotsman "The definitive book on the subject The Sunday Business Post

Emily King is a writer and curator specializing in graphic design. She has an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, for which she wrote a thesis on the design of movie title sequences, and a PhD from Kingston University, focusing on the design of digital type. Having taught at several institutions including the Royal College of Art, she now lectures widely. She is the design editor of Frieze magazine and also a regular contributor to design magazines including Dot Dot Dot, and Eye. She is the author of Restart: New Systems in Graphic Design (2001) and Robert Brownjohn: 1925-1970 Life and Work (2005).

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ISBN 13	9781845332778
ISBN 10	1845332776
Title	Movie Poster
Author	Emily King
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Octopus Publishing Group
Year published	2006-07-13
Number of pages	224
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