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The Last Modernist

The Films of Theo Angelopoulos

Andrew Horton editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:7th Aug '97

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An examination of the films, themes, and concerns of one of Europe's major filmmakers, Theo Angelopoulos.

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

ISBN: 9780313305641

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 340g

162 pages