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Author: Michael Powell Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 9780571204311 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 723
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"Much, much more than the reminiscences of a film director. It's a rich, beautifully detailed history of a time, a place, and a world gone by--the British film industry from the 1920s through the late 1940s, in which every remembrance . . . is filtered through [Powell's] poetic genius . . . as absorbing as any novel".--Martin Scorsese. 30 photos.
Author: Michael Powell Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 9780571204311 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 723
Book Description
"Much, much more than the reminiscences of a film director. It's a rich, beautifully detailed history of a time, a place, and a world gone by--the British film industry from the 1920s through the late 1940s, in which every remembrance . . . is filtered through [Powell's] poetic genius . . . as absorbing as any novel".--Martin Scorsese. 30 photos.
Author: Michael Powell Publisher: Random House Incorporated ISBN: 9780679434436 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 626
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The late director offers a behind-the-scenes look at the film industry, detailing clashes with studio bosses and critics, the destruction of his career, and the greats with whom he worked
Author: David Lazar Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 9781578064984 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 252
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This collection of interviews reveals the mind and the tactics of a master filmmaker who is woefully under-known, even as his films are widely celebrated throughout the world
Author: Ian Christie Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1838717145 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 314
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The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-88), 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 their highly stylised aesthetic and their themes of romantic longing and spiritual crisis. Powell and Pressburger are revered by film lovers and film-makers (Martin Scorsese has called them 'the most successful experimental film-makers in the world'). In this first-ever collection of essays on Powell, an international group of critics and scholars map out his film-making skills, providing new readings of individual films, analysing recurrent techniques and themes, and relating them to contemporary debates about gender, sexuality, nationality and cinematic spectacle. Powell, with and without Pressburger, emerges as a film-maker of lasting originality and significance.
Author: Andrew Moor Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0857733443 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 369
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The film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was one of the most remarkable and visionary in cinema. They made an extraordinary range of films, from The Spy in Black and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp to A Canterbury Tale and The Red Shoes. With champions like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, and revived critical interest worldwide, they now find new generations of admirers. This illuminating new book looks closely at these classic films to explore their complex relationship to national identity, and their interest in exile, borderlands, utopias, escapism, art and fantasy. Moor reveals for example how the visual imagery of the films of the Second World War question current cinematic styles and how post war films like The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman are in their highly expressive use of design, music and dance utterly international in character.
Author: Michael Powell Publisher: Union Square + ORM ISBN: 1435138910 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 185
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Forty strange-but-true historical happenings—from a thirty-eight-minute war to the time when a top-hat caused a riot—from the author of Lies You Learned in School. Here are forty of the most curious events in world history. Though they span the centuries and circle the globe, they share one common trait: all were too peculiar to make it into the standard history books. Read these fascinating accounts and learn about: The craze for consuming powdered mummy to cure all ailments The medieval courtroom advocate who pled the case of plaintiff rats The U.S. President who was shot by an assassin but killed by his doctor’s earnest efforts to treat him If you thought you knew all you needed to know about history, this book will show you some truly curious gaps in your knowledge.
Author: Michael Powell Publisher: ISBN: 9781472364241 Category : Games Languages : en Pages : 144
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This practical book is packed with memory-boosting ideas and challenges. With scores of fun and testing exercises, puzzles, and quizzes, Memory Power will develop your concentration, improve your recall, and sharpen your memory. Each section provides a fascinating overview of a specific memory topic or skill followed by compelling activities to give you brain a targeted workout. Remember names and faces, Improve your study skills, Improve your problem solving and reasoning abilities, Becomes a quiz whiz, Never forget your PIN or passwords again. The brain is capable of producing new brain cells at any age, so use this book to help keep you memory in top shape, boost brainpower keep track of dates, schedules, tasks, and phone numbers and become more productive today! Book jacket.
Author: Michael Petey Powell Publisher: ISBN: 9780984501892 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 272
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Powell's memoir is the brilliantly illustrated story of how a son's love for his father and family inadvertently resulted in him making millions in the drug trade in rural North Carolina. His decision would take him from high-school class president to million-dollar hustler, to heroin addict almost losing it all.
Author: Paul West Publisher: ISBN: 9781852422530 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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Lord Byron's Doctor is one Polidori, the travelling companion, confidante and unwilling chronicler of George Gordon, Lord Byron. It is the year 1816 and Byron, driven out of England by scandalous allegations of incest with his sister, undertakes a debauched European Grande Tour to meet up with the Percy and Mary Shelly in Geneva. From austere Dutch towns to the mountains of Switzerland, the poet's most obsessive thoughts are faithfully recorderd by the awed and repulsed Polidori. Paul West's literary and historical invention of the obscure Italian doctor produces a carnal, extravangant story of Gothic depravity, of poetic genius and the sometimes diabolical personality behind it.
Author: Michael Powell
Author: Michael Powell
Author: Michael Powell
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Author: Michael Powell
Author: Michael Powell
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