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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456646503321

Autore

Hockenhull Stella

Titolo

Neo-romantic landscapes [[electronic resource] ] : an aesthetic approach to the films of Powell and Pressburger / / by Stella Hockenhull

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-282-19222-1

9786612192227

1-4438-0859-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

791.4302330922

Soggetti

Neoromanticism (Art movement) - Great Britain - Influence

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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...