The Last Modernist: Films of Theo Angelopoulos (Cinema Voices S., v. 8.)

Andrew Horton (Editor)

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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

  • ISBN10 0948911743
  • ISBN13 9780948911743
  • Publish Date 1 March 1997
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Flicks Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 144
  • Language English