The Cinema of Michael Powell: International perspectives on an English Filmmaker by Christie, Ian

The Cinema of Michael Powell: International perspectives on an English Filmmaker (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781844570942)

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The Cinema of Michael Powell: International perspectives on an English Filmmaker by Christie, Ian

The Cinema of Michael Powell: International perspectives on an English Filmmaker

$46.95
The Cinema of Michael Powell: International perspectives on an English Filmmaker by Christie, Ian

The Cinema of Michael Powell: International perspectives on an English Filmmaker

$46.95
Format: Paperback
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The films of Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988), among themI Know Where I'm Going (1945), A Matter of Life and Death(1947), andThe Red Shoes(1948), are landmarks in British cinema, standing apart from the realist and comic mainstream with a highly stylized aesthetic and themes of romantic longing and spiritual crisis. Film lovers and filmmakers alike revere Powell and Pressburger; Martin Scorsese has called them "the most successful experimental filmmakers in the world."
In this first-ever collection of essays on Michael Powell, an international group of critics and scholars map out his filmmaking skills, provide new readings of individual films, and analyze recurrent techniques and themes, relating the latter to contemporary debates about gender, sexuality, nationality, and cinematic spectacle."

Author: Ian Christie
ISBN-10: 1844570940
ISBN-13: 9781844570942
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 07/06/2005
Pages: 303
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.54w x 0.89d
By Ian Christie
By Ian Christie
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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 regular broadcaster. Andrew Moor is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Wales in Bangor. He is author of Powell and Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces (2005) and contributed essays on Powell and Pressburger to a range of other publications.

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