Description: A beautifully illustrated study of the crucial role movie posters play in shaping the trajectory of films
Brief description: Gary D. Rhodes is professor of media production at Oklahoma Baptist University. He is author of numerous books, including The Perils of Moviegoing in America: 1896-1950 and The Birth of the American Horror Film. He is also writer/director of such films as Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula and Banned in Oklahoma. He is coeditor (with Robert Singer) of Film by Design: The Art of the Movie Poster, published by University Press of Mississippi.
Review Quotes: To date, the movie poster has been a curiously understudied topic within cinema and media studies scholarship. With contributors examining movie posters from the USA, Cuba, India, Senegal and more, this much-needed collection from Gary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer offers a range of useful scholarly theories and frameworks with which to study these neglected paratexts. This book should hopefully inspire a new wave of scholarship that finally gives the movie poster the sustained academic attention that it deserves.--Iain Robert Smith, senior lecturer in film studies at King's College London and author of The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema