TERRORS FROM WORLDS UNKNOWN

<p>Classic Italian film poster art is renowned as being among the most innovative creative and dynamic of its kind. From the post-war period through to early 1990s Italian artists consistently produced posters with sumptuously stunning designs and seductive imagery - not least in the science fiction genre for which compositions often included curvaceous female figures in jeopardy juxtaposed with the iconography of unreal terrors.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Terrors From Worlds Unknown</strong> collects 150 science fiction film posters by a wide range of acclaimed Italian artists created for both indigenous and world-wide film productions. The collection features full-color full-page reproductions illustrating classic SF tropes from space exploration and alien invasions to aberrant experimentation and bizarre human mutations as well as science fantasy sub-genres such as lost worlds giant monsters and <em>fumetto</em>-inspired superhero narratives. <strong>Terrors From Worlds Unknown</strong> presents a vivid pictorial history of science fiction cinema expressed in its most immediate and eye-catching form.</p><p><br></p>