The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture)
by:
Andrew Horton (author)
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,...
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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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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780275961190 (0275961192)
ASIN: 0275961192
Publish date: 1997-08-07
Publisher: Praeger
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English