Word: posterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poster of a seductive Josephine Baker for "Prinsesse Tam-Tam" (1953), a French film, is particularly striking as is the terrifying poster of a mounted Klansman for "The Birth of a Nation." The posters, in general, are fascinating and often artistically interesting, especially since the splendid colors are kept alive on the glossy pages...
Unfortunately, the posters are laid out poorly. They are broken down into 14 categories which are then arranged at times chronologically, and at times arbitrarily. It is probably best just to browse through the pictures and enjoy them as art and as they illustrate the history described by Bogle without looking for a logical order. Anyone who has seen these movies or who is interested in advertising should be struck by the way the producers and distributors tried to market their films, and what aspects of the movies the posters highlight. For example, the original poster for "The Duke...
...became obsessed with mass-media images. Decades before American Pop, and to the consternation of most critics, he made signery into scenery, recycling theater publicity photos, news shots (of the King with his horse trainer or Amelia Earhart being mobbed at the London airport) and even a gangster-movie poster of Edward G. Robinson. No American or European artist at the time used such sources with as much aplomb. Scorning British good taste and the Edwardian artist's role as the groom of new aristocrats -- a task he left to what he called the "wriggle and chiffon" school of portraiture...
...poster says: "Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard. Music by Andre Previn." But don't expect a Broadway crowd pleaser. Rough Crossing isn't really a musical. It's not really by Tom Stoppard either. But billing aside, the production at Quincy House is an enjoyable rendition of an intelligent farce...
...long ago they had a party. A poster near Au Bon Pain (presumably placed there illegally) read "Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the October (Bolshevik) Revolution. Saturday, November 7." (Imperial Russia used the old-style Julian calendar, so the "October" Revolution actually occurred in November...