Overview

Theo Angelopoulos is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers and a highly idiosyncratic film stylist. His work, from the early 1970s to The Beekeeper, Landscape in the Mist, The Suspended Step of the Stalk and the recent Cannes prize-winner Ulysses' Gaze, demonstrates a unique sensibility and a preoccupation with form (notably, the long take, space, and time) and with content, particularly Greek politics and history, and notions of the journey, border-crossing, and exile. This new collection of essays surveys his entire cinematic output and presents a discussion of his major films, themes, and concerns. The contributors argue that Angelopoulos' sustained oeuvre

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Author:   Andrew Horton ,  A. Horton
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume:   no. 66
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780313305641

ISBN 10:   0313305641
Pages:   162
Publication Date:   07 August 1997
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface Introduction by Andrew Horton Modernism, Minimalism, Melancholy: Angelopoulos and Visual Style by David Bordwell Angelopoulos, Greek History and The Travelling Players by Dan Georgakas A Tour of the Graveyard of Greek Ideals: Voyage to Cythera by Vasilis Rafalidis Tessellations and Honeycombs: The Beekeeper by Gerald O'Grady Theo Angelopoulos: Landscapes, Players, Mist by Michael Wilmington The Empire of the Journey in Voyage to Cythera by Yvette Biro Theo Angelopoulos: The Past as History, the Future as Form by Frederic Jameson ""What do our souls seek?"": An Interview with Theo Angelopoulos by Andrew Horton Theo Angelopoulos: Filmography compiled by Andrew Horton Theo Angelopoulos: Selected Bibliography compiled by Matthew Stevens and Andrew Horton Index Notes on Contributors"

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?The Last Modernist's strength lies in its melange of critical thought. The seven essays andone interview present compelling judgments about Andropoulos's art, and the cultural, historical, and political processes that it involves.... essential reading.?-Cineaste

The Last Modernist's strength lies in its melange of critical thought. The seven essays andone interview present compelling judgments about Andropoulos's art, and the cultural, historical, and political processes that it involves.... essential reading. -Cineaste ?The Last Modernist's strength lies in its melange of critical thought. The seven essays andone interview present compelling judgments about Andropoulos's art, and the cultural, historical, and political processes that it involves.... essential reading.?-Cineaste

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ANDREW HORTON teaches in the English Department of Loyola University. Among his earlier works are Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost (with Michael Brashinsky) and Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay.

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