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What is Exploitation Poster Art about?

"Sex, drugs, delinquency, Black power, alternative culture and, of course, rock and roll: these are just some of the themes which have attracted the attention of the cinema's bottom-feeders over the past eighty years. A few of the resulting films have become cult classics, but most were simply tacky - few would probably now want to sit through two hours of High School Hellcats (1958) or Hot Rod Rumble (1957). The posters produced to promote them, on the other hand, are wonderful period pieces that vividly evoke the social fears, temptations and taboos of bygone eras." "Up until the introduction of the Hayes Code in 1934 Hollywood had few inhibitions; the poster for Girl Without A Room (1933), for example, left audiences in little doubt as to how the young lady planned to find accommodation. Later in the decade, it became necessary to adopt the old tabloid trick of pretending that titillating content had a redeeming social message - thus the producers of Marihuana (1936) were obliged to present it as a warning about the dangers of drug addiction." "In the 1950s, it was the Beats and juvenile delinquents who put a chill into middle-class hearts - and, of course, attracted middle-clas

Who reads Exploitation Poster Art?

Author

Tony Nourmand, Graham Marsh, Dave Kehr

Publisher

Aurum Press, Limited; Aurum Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781845130992

Category

art

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Art

Rating

4.16 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14