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Theo Angelopoulos
Filmmaker and Philosopher
Series: Philosophical Filmmakers
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Essential reading for film scholars, students of philosophy in cinema, and enthusiasts of European arthouse film seeking to deepen their understanding of Theo Angelopoulos' influential work.
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The cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is celebrated as challenging the status quo. From the political films of the 1970s through to the more existential works of his later career, Vrasidis Karalis argues for a coherent and nuanced philosophy underpinning Angelopoulos' work.
The political force of his films, including the classic The Travelling Players (1975), gave way to more essayistic works exploring identity, love, loss, memory and, ultimately, mortality. This development of sensibilities is charted along with the key cultural moments informing Angelopoulos’ shifting thinking. From Voyage to Cythera (1984) until his last film, The Dust of Time (2009), Angelopoulos’ problematic heroes in search of meaning and purpose engaged with the thinking of Plato, Mark, Heidegger, Arendt and Luckacs, both implicitly and explicitly.
Theo Angelopoulos also explores the rich visual language and ‘ocular poetics’ of Angelopoulos’ oeuvre and his mastery of communicating profundity through the everyday. Karalis argues for a reading of his work that embraces contradiction and celebrates the unsettling questions at the heart of his work.
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Theo Angelopoulos
The cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is celebrated as challenging the status quo. From the political films of the 1970s through to the more existential works of his later career, Vrasidis Karalis argues for a coherent and nuanced philosophy underpinning Angelopoulos' work. The political force of his films, including the classic The Travelling Players (1975), gave way to more essayistic works...PaperbackSold Out
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Critics praise Karalis' book for its insightful philosophical analysis and fresh approach to Angelopoulos' film language. Grzegorz Pamrów notes its success in moving beyond traditional interpretations, while Adrian Martin commends it as a bold, original examination of cinema's capacity for pure philosophical thought through imagery.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350245365
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 January 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Illustration: 10 bw illus
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 136.0mm
Height: 214.0mm
Weight: 280g
Pages: 208
About the Author
Vrasidas Karalis is Sir Nicholas Laurantus Professor of Modern Greek and Chair of Modern Greek at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is author of Realism in Greek Cinema (I.B.Tauris, 2017), Cornelius Castoriadis and Radical Democracy (2014), A History of Greek Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2012), Power, Judgment and Political Evil: In Conversation with Hannah Arendt (2010).
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