The Art of Classic Action & Adventure Movie Posters
The Story of the Genre in 750 Eye-Popping Posters
$160.39
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
28 June 2027
Summary
Discover over 800 stunning vintage movie posters celebrating cinema’s greatest action and adventure classics, legendary heroes, epic films, and timeless artistry. From legendary swashbucklers to spectacular science fiction, The Art of Classic Action & Adventure Movie Posters presents an exhilarating visual survey of more than eight hundred original movie posters dating from the early twentieth century to the 1970s.
Edited by acclaimed film historian Ed Hulse, and with a f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780764373312 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0764373315 |
| Author: | Ed Hulse, Frank Thompson |
| Publisher: | Schiffer Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Schiffer Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 28 June 2027 |
| Weight: | 45g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 254mm |
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Ed Hulse
Ed Hulse is a veteran film historian and pop-culture scholar whose columns, reviews, and articles have appeared in Premiere Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, Video Business, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Hulse is the author (in the same series) of The Art of the Classic Western Movie Poster (2024) and The Art of Classic Crime & Mystery Movies (2025). Previous books include The Films of Betty Grable, Frances Dee: A Film History, Distressed Damsels and Masked Marauders, and Wage Slaves in the Dream Factory. Hulse has also acted as editor of The Art of Pulp Fiction (published Fall 2021) and co-edited the definitive The Art of the Pulps (2017).
Film historian Frank Thompson has written several books on classic adventure movies, including an entire book on all the different films dramatizing the siege of the Alamo. Thompson also works as a consultant for various Hollywood studios and video companies and has contributed many commentary tracks for DVDs of classic action/adventure films. His latest is for the recently restored 1926 version of Beau Geste, two posters of which feature in this book.
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