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Author | : Andrew Moor |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2005-03-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0857733443 |
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The film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was one of the most remarkable and visionary in cinema. They made an extraordinary range of films, from The Spy in Black and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp to A Canterbury Tale and The Red Shoes. With champions like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, and revived critical interest worldwide, they now find new generations of admirers. This illuminating new book looks closely at these classic films to explore their complex relationship to national identity, and their interest in exile, borderlands, utopias, escapism, art and fantasy. Moor reveals for example how the visual imagery of the films of the Second World War question current cinematic styles and how post war films like The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman are in their highly expressive use of design, music and dance utterly international in character.
Author | : Michael Powell |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 723 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780571204311 |
Download A Life in Movies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Much, much more than the reminiscences of a film director. It's a rich, beautifully detailed history of a time, a place, and a world gone by--the British film industry from the 1920s through the late 1940s, in which every remembrance . . . is filtered through [Powell's] poetic genius . . . as absorbing as any novel".--Martin Scorsese. 30 photos.
Author | : Ian Christie |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1838717137 |
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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.
Author | : Ian Christie |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1838717145 |
Download Michael Powell Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Michael Powell |
Publisher | : Random House Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780679434436 |
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The late director offers a behind-the-scenes look at the film industry, detailing clashes with studio bosses and critics, the destruction of his career, and the greats with whom he worked
Author | : Ian Christie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780571162710 |
Download Arrows of Desire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger formed one of the greatest creative partnerships in the history of British cinema - The Archers. Their films were often controversial - Churchill tried to suppress the release of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Later, The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman startled and enchanted cinema audiences with their use of colour, form amd music. However, in the last ten years the magic, poetry and passion of their work has been acknowledged around the world and they are firmly in the pantheon of film masters. This book is a comprehensive analysis of their films and is a useful guide to their work.
Author | : David Lazar |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781578064984 |
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This collection of interviews reveals the mind and the tactics of a master filmmaker who is woefully under-known, even as his films are widely celebrated throughout the world
Author | : Ian Christie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781838711382 |
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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.
Author | : Ian Christie |
Publisher | : British Film Institute |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005-07-06 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781844570935 |
Download Michael Powell Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : James Howard |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Motion picture producers and directors |
ISBN | : 9781470011796 |
Download 'I Live Cinema' Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Michael Powell was Britain's best and most successful film director of the 1940s, working with the Hungarian screenwriter Emeric Pressburger as 'The Archers' on a series of classic films including 49th parallel, The life and death of Colonel Blimp, I know where I'm going!, A matter of life and death and The red shoes. Here, for the first time, Powell's entire career is examined and evaluted--from its beginnings as a 'grip' with an MGM film unit and working as a stills photographer for Alred Hitchcock, through an in-depth analysis of the 23 low-budget films directed by Powell in the 1930s, his remarkable partnership with Pressburger and the frustrations he faced in his later solo work--including the once-notorious Peeping Tom--as he found himself virtually excluded from film-making in Britain. Television and theatre productions are also explored, with contemporary material and many exclusive interviews completing a comprehensive assessment of a man whose reputation continues to grow as his outstanding body of work is rediscovered by successive generations of cinema goers.