The Cinema of Michael Powell: International perspectives on an English Filmmaker

by Andrew Moor

The films of Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988), 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 a highly stylized aesthetic and themes of romantic longing and spiritual crisis. Film lovers and filmmakers alike revere Powell and Pressburger; Martin Scorsese has called them "the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844570940
• ISBN13: 9781844570942
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 8.8"