I Know Where I'm Going!

Name: I Know Where I'm Going!
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd
SKU: 9781839023811
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By Pam Cook

Series: BFI Film Classics

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I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) is a cinematic tour de force by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Set in the wild Scottish Highlands, it tells the story of a determined young woman whose encounter with the region's magical, mythic world and exotic customs forces her to reconsider her materialistic ambitions.
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This book will appeal to fans of classic British cinema, students of film history, and those interested in the cultural and technical achievements of 1940s filmmaking.

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I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) is widely regarded as one of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's most remarkable achievements and a cinematic tour de force. 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, mythic world and its exotic customs to revise her materialistic priorities.

Pam Cook 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, she reveals a technologically ambitious masterpiece. I Know Where I'm Going! is, for Cook, a multilayered work rich in allusions whose emotional power reaches beyond boundaries of time and place to touch profound human desires.

In her foreword to this new edition, Cook argues that I Know Where I'm Going!'s ability to be both of its time and timeless is what ensures that it continues to captivate successive generations of viewers.

Series: BFI Film Classics

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781839023811

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 November 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: BFI Publishing

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 58 bw illus

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 136.0mm

Height: 188.0mm

Weight: 168g

Pages: 104

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Pam Cook Series: BFI Film Classics

About the Author

Pam Cook is Professor Emerita in Film at the University of Southampton, UK. She is editor of The Cinema Book (Third Edition, BFI Publishing, 2007) and author of Fashioning the Nation: Costume and Identity in British Cinema (BFI, 1996) and Nicole Kidman in the BFI Film Stars series (2012).