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The art of Italian film posters / Mel Bagshaw.

Title
The art of Italian film posters / Mel Bagshaw.
Author
Bagshaw, Mel.
Publication
London : Black Dog, 2005.

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Description
224 p. : col. ill.; 28 cm.
Summary
"Featuring over 250 posters from the early years of the twentieth century up to the late 1970s, The Art of the Italian Film Posters presents a comprehensive collection of posters for films by classic directors such as Fellini, Pasolini, Antonioni, Rossellini and De Sica, alongside cult hits such as the horror film Suspiria and the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone."--book jacket.
Subject
  • Film posters, Italian
  • Film posters > Italy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: one sheet of dreams -- First encounter: the beginnings of the film poster -- History in black and white: filmmaking under Fascism -- Point and shoot: the birth of neorealism -- Gold among the production line: the rise of the classic directors in the 1950s -- Boomtown: the heyday of Italian film during the 1960s -- America muscles in: cult mythological films in the early 1960s -- A fistful of westerns: the rise of the spaghetti western -- Screaming with style: Italian horror during the 1960s and 1970s -- The kings are dead: the end of an era: Italian filmmaking in the 1970s.
ISBN
1904772315 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 61177542
  • SCSB-12719469
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library