Film Posters of the 80s: The Essential Movies of the Decade

by Tony Nourmand (editor), Graham Marsh (Editor)

The 1980s was a decade in which filmmakers pulled put all the stops to dazzle audiences and make them jump out of their seats. This work captures the images of this decade. The poster art presented here represents the work of a generation of graphic artis..Title: .Film Posters of the 80s..Author: .Nourmand, Tony (EDT)/ Marsh, Graham (EDT)/ Reel Poster Gallery Staff (EDT)..Publisher: .Taschen America Llc..Publication Date: .2007/10/01..Number of Pages: .128..Binding Type: .PAPERBACK..Library of Congress: .

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Pop Culture, Film, Design

127 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Sotiris Makrygiannis · Rating 3 out of 5]

A small collection of movie posters. Small observation, in x-ussr the public posters had no guns or violence, only in West guns were displayed in posters. The best? I liked more the Japanese "violent cop" but of course the classics like the wall, terminator, Ghostbusters are good as well. How much info one should put into a film poster and what template should use? I'm 60s you had mainly the protagonists, in 80s was about a projection of feelings and less info.

[Tim Lapetino · Rating 3 out of 5]

What to say about this book? It's a seemingly random collection of good-to-great 80s movie posters. There doesn't seem to any discernible order, curation or theme to the film posters chosen. Many are iconic while others are just notable films with lesser posters. It's not particularly huge or deep in scope and there is no additional insight into the posters themselves beyond a poorly-written introduction and at least two typos on the back cover.

BUT the reproductions are pretty darn good and the color and clarity of the images is great. So, that is the bare minimum for a successful art book, and this volume basically has it where it counts. A fun read that I'm sure I'll come back to for some kind of reference and/or inspiration. It earned a permanent place on my shelf, but just barely. :)

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cool book! I love the '80s so it was cool to see the movie posters of that decade of popular films. Some even had foreign posters of the film (like the Star Wars one features a movie poster from Poland which was cool to see). Andy Warhol also made a movie poster! Not for Star Wars, some other film, but once I read Andy Warhol made a poster I went back to look at it again and I can totally see his style in it. Fun book! It would be fun to see the '90s movie posters too.

[Guillermo Galvan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A big sized book with full color photos of the greatest movies form the 80's. An excellent book to glance through while sitting on the toilet.

"Grrrr........... hmm.... what movie should I watch tonight? GRrrrrr!"

[Anton Klink · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love many of the movies from the 80s and these posters evoke a lot of fine memories. A nice book to browse through if you are into movies and graphical art.