Product Description

Surf movies have always attracted a certain kind of audience: passionate, committed, and, quite often, stoned. The posters that advertised these low-budget movies began as colourful notices stapled onto beach-side telephone polls in the early fifties. They were full of promises - "See the biggest wave EVER!!", "You'll NEVER witness a wipeout this big!!" - and surfers poured in, wanting to see the best surfers of the day on the greatest waves. Five decades later, surf expert Matt Warshaw brings to wave riders everywhere this singular collection of more than 140 amazing and rare posters, covering everything from the vacuous optimism of Gidget to the psychedelic inventiveness of Pacific Vibrations. Including old ticket stubs, photos of old-time premieres and a side-splitting history of the surf movie in all its shaggy glory, Surf Movie Tonite! brilliantly illustrates the intersection of beach and film culture.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #770435 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Review
"We laughed. We cried. We threw the projector off the balcony." - from the introduction"

About the Author
Matt Warshaw is the former editor of Surfer magazine and has been writing about surfing since 1981. His articles have appeared in Esquire, The New York Time Book Review and The Wall Street Journal.