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Neo-Romantic Landscapes : An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger.
Title:
Neo-Romantic Landscapes : An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger.
Author:
Hockenhull, Stella.
ISBN:
9781443808590
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (223 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Neo-Romantic Landscapes offers a reappraisal of the 1940s 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...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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