I know where I'm going!
I know where I'm going!
I Know Where I'm Going! is widely regarded as one of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's most remarkable films. A simple moral tale set in the wild Scottish Highlands, it follows the journey of a headstrong young woman forced by her encounter with this magical, mythical world and its exotic customs to revise her materialistic priorities. This book traces the film's production history, exploring its place in Powell and Pressburger's canon and showing how it wove into its narrative the memories and aspirations of an international group of film-makers working in 1940s Britain. Focusing on the extensive use of special effects, the book reveals a technologically ambitious masterpiece and a multilayered work rich in allusions whose emotional power reaches beyond the boundaries of time and place to touch profound human desires.
british cinema, exiles, memory, scotland, romance, special effects
0851708145
Cook, Pam
970b2927-f8b3-4c77-9e28-51048b323b72
November 2002
Cook, Pam
970b2927-f8b3-4c77-9e28-51048b323b72
Cook, Pam
(2002)
I know where I'm going!
(BFI Film Classics),
London, UK.
British Film Institute, 80pp.
Abstract
I Know Where I'm Going! is widely regarded as one of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's most remarkable films. A simple moral tale set in the wild Scottish Highlands, it follows the journey of a headstrong young woman forced by her encounter with this magical, mythical world and its exotic customs to revise her materialistic priorities. This book traces the film's production history, exploring its place in Powell and Pressburger's canon and showing how it wove into its narrative the memories and aspirations of an international group of film-makers working in 1940s Britain. Focusing on the extensive use of special effects, the book reveals a technologically ambitious masterpiece and a multilayered work rich in allusions whose emotional power reaches beyond the boundaries of time and place to touch profound human desires.
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Published date: November 2002
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A contribution to debates on cinema and national identity that explores the impact of continental European emigres on 1940s British cinema.
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british cinema, exiles, memory, scotland, romance, special effects
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Local EPrints ID: 49845
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/49845
ISBN: 0851708145
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