My Account Wish List
Advanced Search
Print - Close Window
www.praeger.com/catalog/GM0564.aspx
All Greenwood Products
The Last Modernist The Films of Theo Angelopoulos
(Click to Enlarge)
This book is not currently available for purchase Online. Please call 1-800-225-5800 to backorder.
Andrew Horton
Book Code: GM0564
ISBN: 0-313-30564-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30564-1
144 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 8/30/1997
List Price: $119.95
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
Series Number: 66
Reviews:
  • The Last Modernist's strength lies in its melange of critical thought. The seven essays andone interview present compelling judgments about Andropoulos's art, and the cultural, historical, and political processes that it involves.... essential reading.
    —
    Cineaste
Description: 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 has kept alive the tradition of postwar modernism--the cinema of Antonioni, Jancsó, and Ozu--in the largely hostile environment of the 1980s and 1990s. A major work for students and researchers on contemporary European film.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction by Andrew Horton
  • Modernism, Minimalism, Melancholy: Angelopoulos and Visual Style by David Bordwell
  • Angelopoulos, Greek History and The Travelling Players by Dan Georgakas
  • A Tour of the Graveyard of Greek Ideals: Voyage to Cythera by Vasilis Rafalidis
  • Tessellations and Honeycombs: The Beekeeper by Gerald O'Grady
  • Theo Angelopoulos: Landscapes, Players, Mist by Michael Wilmington
  • The Empire of the Journey in Voyage to Cythera by Yvette Biro
  • Theo Angelopoulos: The Past as History, the Future as Form by Frederic Jameson
  • "What do our souls seek?": An Interview with Theo Angelopoulos by Andrew Horton
  • Theo Angelopoulos: Filmography compiled by Andrew Horton
  • Theo Angelopoulos: Selected Bibliography compiled by Matthew Stevens and Andrew Horton
  • Index
  • Notes on Contributors
LC Card Number: 97-17113
LCC Class: PN1998
Dewey Class: 791
All rights reserved. Copyright © 1999-2009 Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881, (203) 226-3571