Ghanaian Movie Poster
ガーナ手描き映画ポスター / 1980s–2000s / Style / Regional Graphics
Ghana's hand-painted movie posters on flour-sack canvas, made for mobile cinema: unconstrained imagination reinterpreting Hollywood with exaggeration and local horror into a painting style like no other.
Flour-sack canvas / Exaggerated violence and muscle / Free departure from the actual film / Hand-painted title lettering
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- mobile cinema exhibition / the poster workshops / the collector market and continuing production