Powell and Pressburger's War: The Art of Propaganda, 1939-1946



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English | October 19, 2023 | ISBN: 9798765105733, 9798765105771, ASIN: B0BXBNS64P | True EPUB/PDF | 282 pages | 2.6/21.4 MB
Authors: Garrett A. Sullivan Jr., Greg M. Colón Semenza

A focused study on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's cinematic contributions to the war effort, arguing for the centrality of propaganda to their work as film artists.

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.