The Popular Culture Of Film Posters

Movie posters (Key Art) are extremely influential in our popular culture. I am going to explore several areas of the popular culture of the film poster, beginning with t-shirts.... 

Many of film "Classics" such as Jaws and Star Wars have their posters made into t-shirts and other products. In fact, Star Wars' merchandise franchise was worth $30.57 billion in 2012. Many websites specialise in film t-shirts such as TruffleShuffle.com. By buying 'classic' poster t-shirts raises our own social desirability like wearing a Beatles t-shirt or a Nirvana hoodie, it's not neccisarily because we love the band (Or, in this case the film) but because we know OTHERS will like the film, giving us respect for it. Here are some examples of "classic" moie poster tees...

 Moving on to posters on the wall...

Many of us have posters of our favourite movies on our bedroom walls, and we often see movie posters outside cinemas advertising their films. Sometimes, on the ways of our cities, so much so that there has been an uproar against it, officials said...

"Film posters are pasted on every wall, flyovers and underpass, thus defacing the city. The film industry never sought permission for such acts. Now that sticking posters have been banned, this is a crime. We will crack down on everyone who dirties city walls,''

 

Movie posters have also been extremely influential on cover art. For example Marvel's "Deadpool" just posters such as Jaws as inspiration for their cover.

















There are many Movie Poster Artists such as Olly Moss who designs very simplistic film posters, making them into an art rather than a simple form of advertisment. Here are his designs for three of the Star Wars films.