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Author:   Angelos Koutsourakis (Associate Professor in Film and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds) ,  Mark Steven (Graduate Student, Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia, University of New South Wales) ,  Mark Steven (University of New South Wales)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.646kg
ISBN:  

9780748697953

ISBN 10:   0748697950
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   08 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Notes to the Text; Foreword, Alexander Kluge; Introduction: Angelopoulos and the Lingua Franca of Modernism, Angelos Koutsourakis and Mark Steven; Part 1: Authorship; 1: Angelopoulos as Film Critic, Maria Chalkou; 2: Two Short Essays on Angelopoulos’ Early Films, Nagisa Oshima; 3: Generative Apogee and Elegiac Expansion: European Film Modernism from Antonioni to Angelopoulos, Hamish Ford; 4: The Gestus of Showing: Brecht, Tableau, and Early Cinema in Angelopoulos’ Political Period (1970-80), Angelos Koutsourakis: 5: Angelopoulos’s Gaze: Modernism, History, Cinematic Ethics, Robert Sinnerbrink; Part 2: Politics; 6: Angelopoulos and Collective Narrative, Fredric Jameson; 7: Demystification in the Early Films of Theo Angelopoulos, Vrasidas Karalis; 8: Authoritarianism and National Identity in Angelopoulos’ O Megalexandros, Dan Georgakas; 9: Tracks in the Eurozone: Late Style meets Late Capitalism, Mark Steven; Part 3: Poetics; 10: Cinematography of the Group: Angelopoulos and the Collective Subject of Cinema, Julian Murphet; 11: The Storytelling Imperative in the Films of Theo Angelopoulos, Caroline Eades; 12: Syncope and Fractal Liminality: Theo Angelopoulos’ Voyage to Cythera and the Question of Borders, Dany Nobus and Nektaria Pouli; 13: Landscape in the Mist: Thinking Beyond the Perimeter Fence, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald; 14: An ‘Untimely’ History, Sylvie Rollet; Part 4: Time; 15: Angelopoulos and the Time-Image, Richard Rushton; 16: Memory Under Siege: Archive Fever in Ulysses’ Gaze, Smaro Kamboureli; 17: ‘Nothing Ever Ends’: Angelopoulos and the Image of Duration, Asbjørn Grønstad; Afterword: Angelopoulos’ Final Odyssey: The Other Sea, Andrew Horton; Theo Angelopoulos’ Filmography; Notes on the Contributors; Bibliography

Reviews

A much needed and welcome addition to this corpus of critical literature...'The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos' will unquestionably become the key reference point in future anglophone studies of, perhaps, one of the last great European auteurs. -- Sean Homer, American University in Bulgaria, Journal of Greek Media & Culture

Author Information

Angelos Koutsourakis is Professor in Film and Cultural Studies at the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, University of Leeds. He is the author of Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and Cinema (2018), Politics as Form in Lars von Trier (2013) and the co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020), and The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos (2015). Mark Steven is a graduate student at the University of New South Wales. His major research project is titled “Red Modernism: Poetry, Communism, and the Anglo-American Avant-Garde.” He has published on literature, film, and philosophy, including the co-edited Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

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