The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos

ISBN-13: 9780748697953 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 336 str.

Angelos Koutsourakis; Angelos Koutsourakis; Mark Steven

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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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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