Film posters can be works of art—illustrations that summarize a film’s greatest strengths or translate an auteur director’s vision. Fans who fall in love with a franchise or a particular ...

Dwight Cleveland's posters and cards span around 125 years of film history A poster for the for film 'King Kong' is pictured during a press preview ahead of the Cinema on Paper: The Dwight M.

Film posters are designed to sell a story in a glance, but for Polish artists under communism, they became a tool for visual defiance. Forced to reinterpret Hollywood classics within a restricted ...

They were intended to grab us by the lapels and yank us into a movie theatre and say, 'See this film'." But this was also "important art" that went beyond just advertising, he argued. The posters ...