Film Noir posters are fairly generic of Hollywood film posters of the time, although films in the late 50s have a distinctively more Pop Art inspired feel to them, as Pop Art was growing popular at this time. Posters usually include a picture of the main character(s), superimposed (in true pop art style) over a plain/block coloured background.
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Early Film Noir posters were often intricate in detail, and of a high standard of quality. However, as mass advertising and mass consumption developed throughout the fifties, the quality of film posters began to decrease, and it was more a matter of having an eyecatching poster, in a pop art style that would draw in the interest of a large audience. This shift towards a mass audience also accounts for the emphasis put on Hollywood names on the posters and the presidence the names of the actors seem to hold over even the name of the picture.
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If we were to create a poster for our Film Noir production, it would be very difficult to create a replica poster of these 1940s and 50s posters. In terms of font and style an emulation of such posters would be not too difficult, but in terms of the content- the painted depictions of the characters, for example, it would be difficult. We would have to modernise the poster, perhaps by using pictures over a block-coloured background.
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