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Neo-romantic landscapes : an aesthetic approach to the films of Powell and Pressburger
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 and other, Stella Hockenhull draws a correlation between the two media of film and painting to suggest otherwise. Emphasising the spiritual aspects of landscape and nature at a time when the experience and imagery of the war years generate.
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Neo-Romantic Landscapes: Pictorial Aesthetics in Powell and Pressburger's \Gone to Earth\
[...] is a further vision of the land which sees, in its processes of destruction, change and renewal, something of sombre splendour and exultant hope, in which the heightened awareness and intensified emotions of the experience of living through devastation and loss are directed into affirmations of faith which are full of risk but full, too, of great spiritual power.
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