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Author: Professor Greg M. Colón Semenza (University of Connecticut, USA) ,
Garrett A. Sullivan Jr. (Penn State University, USA)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9798765105771
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 31 October 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
"""Greg M. Colón Semenza and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.'s detailed exploration of Powell and Pressburger's wartime films stands out in its clarity of thought, expression and in the thoroughness of the historical research on display. We get rich analyses of the major wartime feature films, and the authors persuasively tease out the complex tensions they reveal between art and propaganda. There are valuable insights, too, into the way Powell and Pressburger point towards the challenges and possibilities of postwar reconstruction. In this well-crafted book, Semenza and Sullivan ably show that they know where they are going."" --Andrew Moor, Reader in Film Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and author of Powell and Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces (2005) ""Powell and Pressburger's War is an important new study of some of British cinema's finest films. Semenza and Sullivan demonstrate how Powell and Pressburger combined technical artistry and cultural imagination to meet the changing ideological imperatives of wartime cinema-creating works that are a perfect fusion of art and propaganda. The authors' sympathetic and nuanced analysis does full justice to these richly textured films. I recommend it heartily to all British cinema scholars and Powell and Pressburger aficionados."" --James Chapman, Professor of Film Studies, University of Leicester, UK, and editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television"
Author Information
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).
