Original Amero, John Movie Posters

John Amero movie posters document New York underground adult cinema of the 1970s — a director whose films occupied the particular territory of adult-oriented genre filmmaking that thrived in American independent cinema during the 1970s, generating theatrical materials that represent the graphic tradition of exploitation film advertising at its most commercially direct.

Amero worked with his brother Lem Amero on several productions, their collaborative approach typical of the small-team independent filmmaking that sustained the exploitation market outside the major studio system. The theatrical materials from their productions — produced for drive-in and grindhouse circuits — carry the bold graphic character of exploitation advertising: high-impact imagery, provocative typography, and design calculated to attract attention in the specific contexts where these films were exhibited.

For collectors of American exploitation and independent cinema of the 1970s, these theatrical materials are primary documents of a film culture that operated independently of the major studios and the mainstream critical apparatus — a cinema of direct address to its audience, produced quickly and designed to achieve immediate commercial effect. The graphic culture of exploitation advertising has been increasingly recognised as a significant chapter in American commercial art history.

Buy original exploitation-era theatrical prints from John Amero's New York underground film period — rare survivals from the independent adult cinema scene that operated outside the mainstream distribution system.

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