Neo-Romantic Landscapes: An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger by Hockenhull, Stella

Neo-Romantic Landscapes: An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger

Neo-Romantic Landscapes offers a reappraisal of the 1940s films of Powell and Pressburger focusing on their use...
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Author: Stella Hockenhull
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Neo-Romantic Landscapes: An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger by Hockenhull, Stella

Neo-Romantic Landscapes: An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger

BD$147.91

Neo-Romantic Landscapes: An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger

BD$147.91
Author: Stella Hockenhull
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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 generated a particular kind of 'affect' arising from the aftermath of destruction, she locates Powell and Pressburger's wartime films in their historical and cultural context, notably Neo-Romanticism. By offering a close analysis of films such as A Canterbury Tale, I Know Where I'm Going , Black Narcissus and Gone to Earth she finds similar aesthetic qualities in a number of British landscape paintings executed contemporaneously. Drawing on press reviews for contemporary spectator response, Neo-Romantic Landscapes offers a redirection of Film Studies, foregrounding the aesthetic pleasures of cinema in excess of narrative plausibility, thus resituating Powell and Pressburger in the British cultural traditions of the visual arts.

Author: Stella Hockenhull
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 09/01/2008
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.42h x 6.00w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9781847187444

About the Author
Stella Hockenhull is a senior lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Wolverhampton.


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