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posted on 2023-06-07, 21:00 authored by Nannette Aldred
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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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

BFI Publishing

Page range

187-209

Pages

295.0

Book title

The Cinema of Michael Powell

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9781844570942

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  • Centre for Community Engagement Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Andrew Moor, Ian Christie

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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