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Title: Musical Movie Posters (The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters, Volume 9) by Bruce Hershenson, Richard Allen ISBN: 1-887893-31-8 Publisher: Bruce Hershenson Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful Addition to collection
Comment: Want to add an excellent reference to your collection of books dealing with the Hollywood Musicals? Then this book is it. Just like those musicals from the golden age of Hollywood, this book has it all. Beautiful photographed images, lots of (techni) colours, stars in their greatest moments. Truly an Oscar winning performance! The book is printed in good quality paper and images are very clear and of good size on each page. Of course it's impossible to include a poster from every musicals in any given year, but the selections Bruce Hershenson made are excellent. A page may contain an average of 5 images while some are giving the full page treatment (e.g. Grease, Singin' In the Rain). Definitely an excellent addition to your library of movie books.
Rating: 5
Summary: When Will the Musical Make a Comeback?
Comment: With the notable exceptions of Oliver! (1968), Cabaret (1972), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Tommy (1975) and Evita (1996), Hollywood has essentially turned its back on a genre that this book re-captures in all its glory. The images are superb, the color and quality are sublime. Though the book is straightforward, a thread of sadness runs subconsciously from its first to its last pages, as one ruminates about what this genre was all about, what it could have been and why it is, for all intents and purposes, dead except on the New York, London and Toronto stages. From Astaire and Rogers to Gene Kelly, Streisand and even the Beatles, it's all covered here. Though it seems awkward to most of today's audiences to see a person in the middle of a scene break out into a song with no band playing behind him on screen, this was the accepted norm and was often the the portion of a film that had an audience soaring in their seats. That such a feeling has all but disappeared makes this book all the more precious, preventing this genre from fading into the wisps of memory. The beautiful thing about this book is the unexpected. Rather than delve into the expected great musicals with the standard American images (which are included in great detail nevertheless), this book includes artwork from other countries, art that is more "in your face" and thought provoking. Who can forget the image used for the Polish version of the 1972 release of "Cabaret?" (Joel Grey's face in the center of four stocking legs bent into the shape of a swastika?) This is the kind of thing that you would never have seen printed or distributed in the U.S., works of art that can only be bought for thousands of dollars today at many of America's biggest auction houses. 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. 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 musicals, illustrates innumerable examples whereby despite the restrictive nature of the genre (musicals), not all posters went in the same direction in terms of style and presentation. From Shall We Dance to A Star is Born, from 42nd Street to Yellow Submarine, Hershenson and Allen have built an incredible archive (and legacy) of images in all of their books, capturing a period (when all posters were drawn by hand and then printed, as opposed to today's method of using photographic stock 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 [email protected]).
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding! The best Musical Movie Poster Book ever!
Comment: The best Musical Movie Poster book available today! This book has it all. Beautifully photographed and reproduced in great color this book reveals the outstanding artists, designers and photographers that created movie poster "Works of Art" from the early days of movie musicals to the current. A"must have" for the movie memorabilia collector and movie musical fan. Superb!
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Title: Academy Award Winners' Movie Posters (The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters Series; Vol. 3)) by Bruce Hershenson ISBN: 1887893008 Publisher: Bruce Hershenson Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Comedy Movie Posters (The Illustrated History of Movies Throuh Posters Series Vol. 12) by Bruce Hershenson, Richard Allen ISBN: 1887893385 Publisher: Bruce Hershenson Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Vintage Hollywood Posters by Richard Allen, Bruce Hershenson ISBN: 1887893288 Publisher: Bruce Hershenson Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Crime Movie Posters by Richard Allen, Bruce Hershenson ISBN: 1887893199 Publisher: Bruce Hershenson Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Best Pictures' Movie Posters by Bruce Hershenson, Richard Allen ISBN: 1887893296 Publisher: Bruce Hershenson Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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