Powell and Pressburger - A Cinema of Magic Spaces

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A fresh review of this extraordinary film-making partnership. 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Moor
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2012
• EAN: 9781780763774
• ISBN: 978-1-78076-377-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 232 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Cinema and Society; Cinema and Society
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet