The art of Noir posters
Artistically, noir was a movement that washed over hollywood like a Black tide at the end of the second world war. The result was a new cultural mythology, and the poster art needed to be as alluring and dark as the product it was selling, the images of gaiety, affluence, and true love that had adorned studio-produced paper were transformed, in the years following the war.
what's the attraction? it must be the imagery, simultaneously innocent and incendiary, featuring a blatant commingling of sex and violence. Psychological thrillers and crime fiction plot lines indulge the wicked, taking viewers through sordid storylines featuring adultery, conspiracy and of course murder.
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