Ian Christie

A Matter of Life and Death (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A dazzling fantasy produced in the aftermath of World War Two, A Matter of Life and Death (1946), directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starred David Niven as an RAF pilot poised between life and death. This books looks in detail at the making of the film. Ian Christie shows how the film drew on many sources and traditions to create a unique form of modern masque, treating contemporary issues with witty allegory and enormous visual imagination. He believes the film deserves to be thought of as one of cinema's greatest achievement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781838714215
• Artikelnr.: 60121280

Autorenporträt

Ian Christie is Fellow of the British Academy and Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He co-edited the collection Eisenstein Rediscovered (1993) as well as organising a 1988 Oxford conference that preceded it. He has long been active in presenting Eisenstein's silent films with live accompaniment, and in promoting awareness of the drawings, most recently in Eisenstein on Paper: The Graphic Works (2017). Among many exhibitions, he co-curated Eisenstein: His Life and Work (Oxford, London and Manchester, 1988), and Unexpected Eisenstein (London, 2016).