Description
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made a range of films, from "The Spy in Black" and "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" to "A Canterbury Tale" and "The Red Shoes". This book looks at these classic films to explore their complex relationship to national identity, and their interest in exile, borderlands, utopias, escapism, art and fantasy.
About the Author
Andrew Moor is Reader in Cinema History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is co-editor (with Ian Christie) of Michael Powell: International Perspectives on an English Filmmaker and (with Graeme Harper) of Signs of Life: Medicine of Cinema. He is currently writing a book on gay cinema.
Reviews
'Powell and Pressburger made beautiful, deviant and mongrel films that are famously un-pindownable. Moor's book challenges this belief in their rootlessness and shows how they fit into the movie genres, social history, empire, gender, nation, literature and iconography. He's particularly good on the postwar films, and brilliant on David Niven.' Mark Cousins 'Andrew Moor does full justice to the richness of their great films of the 1940s, and relates them in fascinating ways to the events of this pivotal decade in twentieth-century British history.' Charles Barr 'Essential reading for anyone engaging with the work of Powell and Pressburger.' Screen 'Eclectic and intellectually stimulating. - This book is clearly a labour of love, but that only adds to its worth and readability.' Historical Journal of Film and Television ' - A valuable text for both students and academics that is pertinent for study relating to postmodernism, cultural geography, postcolonial studies, gender studies, film studies, and the affect/effect of cinematic spaces on the spectator.' Journal of Popular Film and Television
Book Information
ISBN 9781780763774
Author Andrew Moor
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Series Cinema and Society
Weight(grams) 376g