Description
Book SynopsisFor four decades film historian Ira M. Resnick has been amassing a superb collection of 2,000 vintage movie posters and 1,500 stills, which has never before been published. Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood features the best of Resnick's collection, with vivid reproductions of 250 posters and forty stills from the golden age of Hollywood, 1912 to 1962.
In a moving introduction, Resnick relates how his love of vintage movie art translated into a career as a collector and the founder of the Motion Picture Arts Gallery, the first gallery devoted exclusively to the art of the movies. Resnick's first-hand account offers entertaining anecdotes about how he managed to acquire such stellar film artwork, as well as historical information about the stars and films shown on the pieces he collected.
Guiding the reader through the best posters and stills of his collection, Resnick provides a tour of cinematic history, starting in the s
Table of Contents
Foreword Introduction 1 The Education of a Collector 2 Falling in Love Again (and Again): The Development of a Collection 3 The Silents, 1912--1929 4 The Golden Age of the Talkies: The Women, 1927--1941 5 The Golden Age of the Talkies: The Men, 1927--1941 6 From Citizen Kane to Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1941--1962 7 Great Directors 8 Classic Films 9 Little-Known Movies with Great Graphics My Fifty Favorite One-sheets A Guide for the Movie Poster Collector Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
