Powell and Pressburger’s War
Bloomsbury Publishing USA (Verlag)
979-8-7651-0573-3 (ISBN)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger are widely hailed as two of the greatest filmmakers in British cinema history. The release of their first movie, The Spy in Black, barely preceded the beginning of World War Two, and a number of their early masterworks, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Canterbury Tale, and A Matter of Life and Death, were produced in the service of the war effort. Through exploring the relationship between art and propaganda, this book shows that Powell and Pressburger saw no contradiction between their aesthetic ambitions and their cinematic war work: propaganda imperatives were highly conducive to their objectives as both commercial cinema practitioners and artists.
Drawing on production materials from the archives of the British Film Institute, this book charts three phases in Powell and Pressburger’s wartime career: from first-time collaborators who strive to reconcile popular cinematic forms with developing notions of what constitutes effective propaganda; to accomplished, and sometimes controversial, propagandists whose movies center upon Britain’s relations with its enemies and allies; to filmmakers whose responsiveness to the propaganda requirements of the late war is matched by a focus, shared by the Ministry of Information, on what the post-war future would bring.
Greg M. Colón Semenza is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, USA. His books include How to Build a Life in the Humanities (2015), The English Renaissance in Popular Culture (2010), Graduate Study for the 21st Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities (2005; 2nd ed. 2010), Milton in Popular Culture (2006), and Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance (2004). He has published numerous essays on film and adaptation. Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. is Liberal Arts Professor of English at Penn State University, USA. He is the author of four monographs, including Shakespeare and British World War Two Film (2022), Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment (2012), Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama (2005), and The Drama of Landscape: Land, Property and Social Relations on the Early Modern Stage (1998).
Introduction
Part One
1. “You are English. I am German. We are enemies”: Anticipating Propaganda in The Spy in Black
2. “Taking the War Against Hitler”: Blockade and Blackout in Contraband
Part Two
3. 49th Parallel and the Dangerous Interpretability of Wartime Propaganda
4. From “We Can Take It” to “V for Victory”: Agency, Gender, and Propaganda in One of Our Aircraft is Missing
5. “England Isn’t as Bad as All That”: Propaganda and Censorship in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Part Three
6. “The Values That We Are Fighting For”: Reconciling Tradition and Modernity in A Canterbury Tale
7. Building Up a New Britain: Scotland and Post-War Reconstruction in I Know Where I’m Going!
8. “Conservative by Nature, Labour by Experience”: The Propaganda of Futurity in A Matter of Life and Death
Coda
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 20 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-7651-0573-3 / 9798765105733 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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