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Michael Powell: International Perspectives on an English Film-maker
Ian Christie
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Description for Michael Powell: International Perspectives on an English Film-maker
Hardback. A useful collection of essays on Powell and Pressburger . This book examines their thematic motifs with extensive and expert analyses of their films. Editor(s): Christie, Ian; Moor, Andrew. Num Pages: 303 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 914.
The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-88), among them I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in British cinema, standing apart from the realist and comic mainstream with their highly stylised aesthetic and their themes of romantic longing and spiritual crisis. Powell and Pressburger are revered by film lovers and film-makers (Martin Scorsese has called them 'the most successful experimental film-makers in the world'). In this first-ever collection of essays on Powell, an international group of critics and scholars map out his film-making skills, ... Read more
The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-88), among them I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in British cinema, standing apart from the realist and comic mainstream with their highly stylised aesthetic and their themes of romantic longing and spiritual crisis. Powell and Pressburger are revered by film lovers and film-makers (Martin Scorsese has called them 'the most successful experimental film-makers in the world'). In this first-ever collection of essays on Powell, an international group of critics and scholars map out his film-making skills, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
303
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
303
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844570935
SKU
V9781844570935
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About Ian Christie
Ian Christie is the author of Arrows of Desire: the Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (1985, 1994) and has written and edited four other books about their work. He has organised many retrospectives and played a part in the films' restoration. He is currently Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a ... Read more
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