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Neo-romantic landscapes : an aesthetic approach to the films of Powell and Pressburger / by Stella Hockenhull.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hockenhull, Stella.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neoromanticism (Art movement)--Great Britain--Influence.
- Neoromanticism (Art movement).
- Powell, Michael, 1905-1990--Criticism and interpretation.
- Powell, Michael.
- Pressburger, Emeric, 1902-1988--Criticism and interpretation.
- Pressburger, Emeric.
- Genre:
- Libros electrónicos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Neo-Romantic Landscapes offers a reappraisal of the 1940's films of Powell and Pressburger focusing on their use of landscape. Questioning the established notion that the two film-makers, owing to their non-British personal roots, are located as un-British and 'other', Stella Hockenhull draws a correlation between the two media of film and painting to suggest otherwise. Emphasising the spiritual aspects of landscape and nature at a time when the experience and imagery of the war years generate...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-207) and index.
- Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-19222-1
- 9786612192227
- 1-4438-0859-8
- OCLC:
- 816312382
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