The top ten! I had imagined that I would write extensive blurbs for each of the posters that made the final list, but I realized in the course of preparing the images for posting that these posters, like all superior examples of graphic design, really speak for themselves. Heck, the poster in the top spot is so conceptually complete that one almost need not watch the film! Yet I’m a professor, and a verbose one at that, so the blurbs are present as usual — and to be honest, writing them has…

10 posts published by Matthew during November 2012

Dutch written pulpmagazine/paperback of Conald Lueger - vampier of vlinder (translation could be: vampire or butterflie) issued in 1960 as nr 36 of the Faun collection by Uitgeverij A.B.C. in Antwerpen, Belgium. Nice cover by ...... (as usual in this Faun collection the cover is taken from USA magazines, see the nice piece of the gangster rifle

A place where I escape to relax, find and save images of beauty and grace. I ask that you please don't stay and definitely don't follow if you're under 18. All images, unless otherwise noted, were either reblogged from other Tumblr blogs (mostly) or taken from other sites on the internet...

Film Noir

Diana Dors, Yield to the Night (1956).

Saturday Evening Post, Illustrated by James R. Bingham, February 1958

notpulpcovers: “ Paul Rader http://flic.kr/p/ikj5Y7 ”

This scene has haunted me for nigh on forty years. When I first saw it, I was a club'n king, but all our clubs in the seventies were dance clubs. I love to dance, and we had Pandora's, Tulagi's (where they once premiered Michael Jackson's Thriller on a giant screen above the dance floor), and The Rush, that held a thousand dancers on multi-level dance floors

greedylittlepig: “christophe blain source: wellnotwisely ”

Page 353- noirish Los Angeles Found City Photos

pulpdesire: “ Ernest “Darcy” Chiriaka ”