Theo Angelopoulos

Filmmaker and Philosopher

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de Vrasidas Karalis

Type

Studies

Sujet

Director > Theo Angelopoulos

Mots Clés

Theo Angelopoulos, director, philosophy

Année d'édition

2023

Editeur

Bloomsbury Academic

Collection

Philosophical Filmmakers

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 208 pages
5 ¼ x 8 ½ inches (13.5 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-350-24536-5

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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 Angelopopulos' 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.

À propos de l'auteur :
Vrasidas Karalis is Associate Professor in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has published extensively on Greek culture, history and art. He is the editor of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand). In the area of film studies he has published on Theo Angelopoulos, Sergei Eisenstein and Alfred Hitchcock.

Revue de Presse:
"This book has impressively decoded the potential of philosophical complexities in Angelopoulos' films. Vrasidas Karalis has un-framed the director's cinematic language from traditional filmic reasoning and previously marked spatiotemporal ocular 'slowness', to reach the anti-rhetorical interpretation in terms of: visuality, aesthetics and logic towards Angelopoulos' art." ―Grzegorz Pamrów, CEO, Speakers' Avenue, Educational Film Collective, Poland

"Vrasidas Karalis's new book on the inexhaustible, profound and mysterious cinema of Theo Angelopoulos offers a bold and original argument. Can philosophical thinking occur purely through the work of images, without standard plots and characters? Karalis affirms and demonstrates this possibility in all its historical complexity. It's an extraordinary achievement." ―Adrian Martin, Adjunct Professor of Film and Media Studies, Monash University, Australia

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