Wartime Cinema, Englishness and Propaganda
Michael Powell and the ‘Pressburger Touch’
Seiten
2025
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7950-0 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7950-0 (ISBN)
The book provides a study of the wartime films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and their team the Archers between 1938 and 1947, situated within wartime cinema and focussing on national identity explored with the ‘Pressburger Touch’. -- .
This book provides a fresh analysis of the wartime work of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and their team ‘the Archers’. It argues that in their earlier work, Powell and Pressburger should be seen as middlebrow storytellers whose stories explore national identity in times of war. Their wartime work is discussed in four phases: the first phase covers their contributions to the ‘phoney war’, the second traces their engagement with the ‘people’s war’. The third phase sees the Archers move beyond propaganda, towards memodramas of Englishness. The fourth phase dramatizes post-war preoccupations with an increasing focus on memory and trauma. The book also looks at Pressburger’s later work, including his two published novels Killing a Mouse on Sunday and The Glass Pearls. -- .
This book provides a fresh analysis of the wartime work of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and their team ‘the Archers’. It argues that in their earlier work, Powell and Pressburger should be seen as middlebrow storytellers whose stories explore national identity in times of war. Their wartime work is discussed in four phases: the first phase covers their contributions to the ‘phoney war’, the second traces their engagement with the ‘people’s war’. The third phase sees the Archers move beyond propaganda, towards memodramas of Englishness. The fourth phase dramatizes post-war preoccupations with an increasing focus on memory and trauma. The book also looks at Pressburger’s later work, including his two published novels Killing a Mouse on Sunday and The Glass Pearls. -- .
Ina Habermann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Basel -- .
Introduction: The Archers’ Tale
1 Propaganda and the British media
2 The ‘Phoney War’
3 The ‘People’s War’
4 Beyond propaganda
5 Post-war preoccupations
Conclusion: Touched by Pressburger
Select bibliography -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.09.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 31 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 530 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-7950-4 / 1526179504 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-7950-0 / 9781526179500 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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