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The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos
About this book
The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is the first critical assessment of one of the leading figures of modernist European art cinema. Assessing his complete works, this groundbreaking collection brings together a team of internationally regarded experts and emerging scholars from multiple disciplines, to provide a definitive account of Angelopoulos' formal reactions to the historical events that determined life during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Refusing to restrict its approach to the confines of the Greek national film industry, the book approaches his work as representative of modernism more generally, and in particular of the modernist imperative to document its allusive historical objects through artistic innovation. Retrospective in nature, The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos argues that Angelopoulos' films are not emblems of a bygone historical and cultural era or abstract exercises in artistic style, but are foreshadowing documents that speak to the political complexities and economic contradictions of the present.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Foreword
- INTRODUCTION Angelopoulos and the Lingua Franca of Modernism
- PART I Authorship
- CHAPTER 1 Theo Angelopoulos as Film Critic
- CHAPTER 2 Two Short Essays on Angelopoulosâ Early Films
- CHAPTER 3 Generative Apogee and Elegiac Expansion: European Film Modernism from Antonioni to Angelopoulos
- CHAPTER 4 The Gestus of Showing: Brecht, Tableaux and Early Cinema in Angelopoulosâ Political Period (1970â80)
- CHAPTER 5 Angelopoulosâ Gaze: Modernism, History, Cinematic Ethics
- PART II Politics
- CHAPTER 6 Angelopoulos and Collective Narrative
- CHAPTER 7 Theo Angelopoulosâ Early Films and the Demystification of Power
- CHAPTER 8 Megalexandros: Authoritarianism and National Identity
- CHAPTER 9 Tracks in the Eurozone: Late Style Meets Late Capitalism
- PART III Poetics
- CHAPTER 10 Cinematography of the Group: Angelopoulos and the Collective Subject of Cinema
- CHAPTER 11 The Narrative Imperative in the Films of Theo Angelopoulos
- CHAPTER 12 Syncope and Fractal Liminality: Theo Angelopoulosâ Voyage to Cythera and the Question of Borders
- CHAPTER 13 Landscape in the Mist: Thinking Beyond the Perimeter Fence
- CHAPTER 14 An âUntimelyâ History
- PART IV Time
- CHAPTER 15 Angelopoulos and the Time-image
- CHAPTER 16 Memory Under Siege: Archive Fever in Theo Angelopoulosâ Ulyssesâ Gaze
- CHAPTER 17 âNothing Ever Endsâ: Angelopoulos and the Image of Duration
- AFTERWORD Theo Angelopoulosâ Unfinished Odyssey: The Other Sea
- Theo Angelopoulosâ Filmography
- Notes on Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index