Book DescriptionThis collection presents the crème de la crème of schlocky movie postersfrom Sexploitation to Blaxploitation, High School Hellcats to Fritz the Cat The movies may be tacky, but the posters are masterpieces of innuendovivid, often comic reminders of the taboos of yesteryear Sex, drugs, delinquency, Black Power, rock овгкя n roll: these are just a few of the themes that have inspired B-movie makers over the past 80 years A few of the films have become cult classics, but not many of us would want to sit through two hours of Hot Rod Rumble The posters created to promote these movies, on the other hand, are fantastic period pieces that evoke all the taboos of bygone eras Before the Hayes Code of 1934, Hollywood had few inhibitions: the poster for Girl Without a Room, for example, left little doubt as to how the young woman would find accommodation In the 50s, Beats and juvenile delinquents attracted teens to the drive-ins; in the 60s and 70s came Blaxploitation films like Shaft and the first of Russ Meyers mammary- obsessed epics, Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill The posters for these filmsfrom Albert Vargas venture into the genre for Ladies They Talk About toAlan Aldridges photomontage for Andy Warhols Chelsea Girlsare masterpieces of visual innuendo, offering, in most cases, far more than the movies themselves actually delivered.  В книге изложены2005 г Мягкая обложка, 191 стр ISBN 1845130995.