The Art Of Noir: The Posters and Graphics from the Classic Period of Film Noi - Hardcover

Muller, Eddie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585670731 ISBN 13: 9781585670734

Publisher: Overlook Press, 2002

Synopsis

r Film noir is about style as much as it is about crime, with poster art that features a bold look and iconography all its own - a sizzling marriage of sex and violence. This is the first book to present this striking artwork in a lavishly produced, large-format volume featuring 275 colour images of posters and other promotional material from the golden age of noir. Featuring such classics as Touch of Evil and The Big Sleep, noir expert Eddie Muller also provides background information on all of the illustrators.

About this title

Review:

If any collection of pictures that dont move can be said to capture the essential spirit of noir, The Art of Noir does --Los Angeles Times

To look at these movie posters is to glimpse a world of passionate intensity, of mingling desperation, loneliness, erotic obsession and greed --Washington Post

About the Author:

Eddie Muller, "The Czar of Noir," is the founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, and provides commentary for noir films and specials on Turner Classic Movies. He created his own graphics firm, St. Francis Studio, and is the author of Grindhouse, Dark City Dames, and Dark City. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1585670731
• ISBN 13: 9781585670734
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256