Movie posters : the history of cinema from the origins to the present / by Richard Dacre.

Includes bibliographical references (page 238).

The silent era and the development of narrative -- Studio classics from the Hollywood Golden Age -- The Ealing Studios and the 1940s British film renaissance -- The decline of the American studio system and the struggle with television -- Nouvelle vague -- New waves across the rest of Europe -- Latin America, Asia, Australia and Africa -- The swinging sixties -- Hollywood UK -- Hollywood takes back the reins -- World cinema: recent trends -- Animation: an overview.

This book focuses on some of the finest movie posters ever produced ; some because of the originality of their design, others because of their success to withdraw attention and making a film seem unmissable. Through the posters of the 1930s and 40s we can relive the classic era of Hollywood, to the 1950s posters promoting the use of wide screen. As the Hollywood studio system declined, the rise of European cinema and other national movements in Asia and beyond would introduce new ideas to narrative films and their advertising which would have a global impact. A collection of posters featuring movies which have helped shape the history of world cinema. A great collection of not only the posters of the blockbusters or classics movies of Hollywood Golden Era, but also great European, Latin American and Asian movies which changed film-making history.