| Description |
1 online resource (96 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
BFI Film Classics |
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BFI film classics.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- 1. Beginnings -- 2. Production -- 3. Responses -- Epilogue: Afterlife -- Notes -- Credits |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 25 September 2020) |
| SUBJECT |
Matter of life and death (Motion picture : 1946) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001027415
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Matter of life and death (Motion picture : 1946) fast |
| Subject |
Films, cinema.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781838712662 |
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1838712666 |
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1838714227 |
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9781838714222 |
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