I Know Where I'm Going! (BFI Film Classics) [Paperback]

Pam Cook (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 22, 2008

I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) is a simple moral tale set in the wild Scottish Highlands. This book traces the film's production history, exploring its place in Powell and Pressburger's canon. Focusing on the use of special effects, the book reveals a technologically ambitious masterpiece.

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About the Author

Pam Cook is Professor of European Film and Media at the University of Southampton. She is coeditor of The Cinema Book (BFI, second edition, 1999). Her publications on British cinema include Fashioning the Nation: Costume and Identity in British Cinema (BFI, 1996) and (as editor) Gainsborough Pictures 1924-1950 (1998).

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: British Film Institute; First Edition edition (January 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0851708145
• ISBN-13: 978-0851708140
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,917,243 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Pam Cook (born 6 January 1943, Farnborough, Hampshire, UK) is Professor Emerita in Film at the University of Southampton. Along with Laura Mulvey and Claire Johnston, she was a pioneer of 1970s Anglo-American feminist film theory. In the mid-1980s, Cook co-authored and edited the leading film studies text book The Cinema Book for the British Film Institute. From 1985 to 1994 she was Associate Editor and contributor on the BFI magazines Monthly Film Bulletin and Sight and Sound, before becoming a lecturer at the University of East Anglia. In 1998 she was appointed the first Professor of European Film and Media at the University of Southampton. Since her retirement in 2005, she continues to publish books and articles on film.