Neo-Romantic Landscapes offers a reappraisal of the 1940s films of Powell and Pressburger focusing on their use of landscape. Questioning the established notion that the two film-makers, owing to their non-Britishpersonal roots, are located as un-British.
"As a trained art historian and film scholar, Hockenhull provides revealing comparative close visual analyses of the films of Powell and Pressburger, where she also examines the films' critical reception when first released to support her argument about a general cultural Britis…
Neo-Romantic Landscapes offers a reappraisal of the 1940s films of Powell and Pressburger focusing on their use of landscape. Questioning the established notion that the two film-makers, owing to their non-British personal roots, are located as un-British.
This innovative study centres on the body as a centripetal force in Burton's work and considers the array of anomalous, extraordinary and transgressive beings that pervade his canon.
1. Carl's moving castle : "animated" houses and the renovation of play in Up (2009) / Christopher Holliday -- 2. Peas, parsnips, and patriotism : images of the garden in the Second World War / Stella Hockenhull -- 3. "King for a day" : performance and expression in the cinematic…