Crime Movie Posters (Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters) [Paperback]

Bruce Hershenson (Author), Richard Allen (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Bruce Hershenson (December 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1887893199
• ISBN-13: 978-1887893190
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,752,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A superb collection of beautifully-reproduced posters., November 7, 1999

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This review is from: Crime Movie Posters (Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters) (Paperback)

I was wow-ed by this wonderful collection and went on to buy every one of Bruce Hershenson's delightful poster books. Every movie lover will enjoy them.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A spectacular volume of fabulous images!, November 18, 1999

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David Kusumoto (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crime Movie Posters (Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters) (Paperback)

Everyone has their own favorite film genre (animation, action and adventure, science fiction, etc.). This one is mine. If you are the least bit interested in the jaw-dropping beauty of what has become a lost art -- the exercise of drawing images associated with the advertising of a Hollywood film -- this is the book to have. No other genre, in my opinion, was more dark and foreboding and in turn experienced a burst of creativity than posters associated with the film-noir period of Hollywood, which roughly ran from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s. This book is part of movie poster maven Bruce Hershenson's exhaustive multi-volume series of books highlighting the history and beauty of what much of mainstream America has only in the last ten years begun to recognize. And that is movie posters are a "popular art" form that can stand proudly next to all other styles of art from gothic to modern, from expressionist to impressionist. Great film art borrows from all of these styles and this volume, which focuses only on posters associated with crime and film-noir films, is my favorite. It illustrates innumerable examples of the ranges in style, despite the superficial expectation that all art from this genre was the same. It was not. From Gilda to This Gun For Hire, Hershenson and Allen have built an incredible archive of images in all of his books, capturing a period (when all posters were drawn by hand and then printed, as opposed to today's method of using a montage of photos and manipulating them digitally and printing them by the thousands) that would otherwise be lost forever. A fine book for any collector (get the hardcover edition if you can, it's harder to find; if Amazon doesn't have it, it's available from Mr. Hershenson directly at [e-mail].

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Every last shot...., December 14, 2000

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"pgarbrecht" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crime Movie Posters (Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters) (Paperback)

Every last shot heard in the world of motion pictures is displayed here. From Pre-code films like LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT to the Code-in-your-face PULP FICTION, Bruce Hershenson captures the poster art of these films in splashy high quality color. A bonus is that Bruce always includes lobby card art, cherished by many a collector, but not displayed often.