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Michael Powell: International Perspectives on An English Film-Maker
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Michael Powell: International Perspectives on An English Film-Maker Paperback - 2005

by Ian Christie And Andrew Moor

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British Film Institute, 2005. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9781844570942
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  • Title Michael Powell: International Perspectives on An English Film-Maker
  • Author Ian Christie And Andrew Moor
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 303
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher British Film Institute, London
  • Date 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9882158
  • ISBN 9781844570942 / 1844570940
  • Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.8 x 6.54 x 0.89 in (22.35 x 16.61 x 2.26 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

From the rear cover

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, providing new readings of individual films, analysing recurrent techniques and themes, and relating them to contemporary debates about gender, sexuality, nationality and cinematic spectacle. Powell, with and without Pressburger, emerges as a film-maker of lasting originality and significance.

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About the author

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.