The Cinema of Michael Powell
International Perspectives on an English Filmmaker
British Film Institute · Print & ebook · July 6, 2005
The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-88), among them I Know Where I'm Going!
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- Who it’s for
- Essays examine Powell’s filmmaking through individual films, recurring techniques, and debates about cinema and society.
- Themes
- Romantic longing, Spiritual crisis, Gender, sexuality, and nationality
- Genres
- Director Studies, Film History, Film Direction & Production
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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.
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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.
Powell’s Film Craft
Essays examine Powell’s filmmaking through individual films, recurring techniques, and debates about cinema and society.
Come here for
- New readings of individual Powell films
- Analysis of recurring techniques and themes
Expect
- Perspectives from international critics and scholars
- Discussion of gender, sexuality, and nationality
Where it sits
| Director Studies | 84% |
|---|---|
| Film History | 65% |
| Film Direction & Production | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Performing Arts
- Film & Cinema
- Film Direction & Production
- Authors
- Ian Christie, Andrew Moor
- Publisher
- British Film Institute
- Published
- July 6, 2005
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Romantic longing · Spiritual crisis · Gender, sexuality, and nationality
- Reading lane
- Performing Arts