Greg M. Colón Semenza and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.'s detailed exploration of Powell and Pressburger's wartime films stands out in its clarity of thought, expression and in the thoroughness of the historical research on display. We get rich analyses of the major wartime feature films, and the authors persuasively tease out the complex tensions they reveal between art and propaganda. There are valuable insights, too, into the way Powell and Pressburger point towards the challenges and possibilities of postwar reconstruction. In this well-crafted book, Semenza and Sullivan ably show that they know where they are going.

Andrew Moor, Reader in Film Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and author of Powell and Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces (2005)

A historically nuanced account of Powell and Pressburger's wartime and immediately postwar output that not only provides a valuable contribution to scholarship on The Archers themselves but will be of great utility and interest to historians of mid-twentieth-century history, cinema, and Second World War propaganda.

History: The Journal of the Historical Association

A well-researched variant on the existing scholarly work in the field…Powell and Pressburger's War: The Art of Propaganda, 1939 – 1946 is a comprehensive study and provides a proficient and competent addition to the publications already in existence on the film-making duo.

Journal of British Cinema and Television

Powell and Pressburger's War is an important new study of some of British cinema's finest films. Semenza and Sullivan demonstrate how Powell and Pressburger combined technical artistry and cultural imagination to meet the changing ideological imperatives of wartime cinema-creating works that are a perfect fusion of art and propaganda. The authors' sympathetic and nuanced analysis does full justice to these richly textured films. I recommend it heartily to all British cinema scholars and Powell and Pressburger aficionados.

James Chapman, Professor of Film Studies, University of Leicester, UK, and editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

Powell and Pressburger's War is an important and worthwhile addition to the growing library on P&P's remarkable career separately and together: British Film enthusiasts and British Film scholars will want to read it.

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