The Movie Poster Essay

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Soviet Features In the Movie Posters UMMA’s Exhibit, Soviet Constructivist Posters: Branding the New Order displays the early cinema’s posters. This exhibit shows a Soviet system feature, egalitarianism. This exhibit features egalitarianism especially through the poster for The Love Triangle, whose heroine has a common characteristic with the Nazi woman Ulla in Hitler Youth Quex. They who represent feminism contrast the flirtatious Communist woman, Gerta. Ulla and the heroine are both plain and normal in appearance, but energetic and youthful in spirit. On one hand, the positive and humanistic behavior of Ulla who bandages wounded Nazi boys, contrasts with that of Gerta, who flirts with motley types of men. Gerta is an example of women