Books in French are on www.livres-cinema.info
The Films of Theo Angelopoulos
A Cinema of Contemplation
(0 vote)Average rating:
| 0 | rating |  = We can do without |
| 0 | rating |  = Good book |
| 0 | rating |  = Excellent book |
| 0 | rating |  = Unique / a reference |
Your rating: -
Book Presentation:
Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world today, yet his films are still largely unknown to the American public. In the first book in English to focus on Angelopoulos's unique cinematic vision, Andrew Horton provides an illuminating contextual study that attempts to demonstrate the quintessentially Greek nature of the director's work. Horton situates the director in the context of over 3,000 years of Greek culture and history. Somewhat like Andrei Tarkovsky in Russia or Antonioni in Italy, Angelopoulos has used cinema to explore the history and individual identities of his culture. With such far-reaching influences as Greek myth, ancient tragedy and epic, Byzantine iconography and ceremony, Greek and Balkan history, modern Greek pop culture including bouzouki music, shadow puppet theater, and the Greek music hall tradition, Angelopoulos emerges as an original "thinker" with the camera, and a distinctive director who is bound to make a lasting contribution to the art form.
In a series of films including The Travelling Players, Voyage to Cythera, Landscape in the Mist, The Suspended Step of the Stork, and most recently in Ulysses' Gaze starring Harvey Keitel (winner of the 1995 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix), Angelopoulos has developed a remarkable cinematic style, characterized by carefully composed scenes and an enormous number of extended long shots. In an age of ever decreasing attention spans, Angelopoulos offers a cinema of contemplation.
About the Author:
Andrew Horton is Jeanne H. Smith Professor of Film and Video Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Writing the Character Centered Screenplay, Russian Critics on a Cinema of Glasnost, and Comedy/Cinema/Theory, and coauthor, with Michael Brashinsky, of The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition.
See the publisher website: Princeton University Press
See the complete filmography of Theo Angelopoulos on the website: IMDB ...
> From the same author:
Play It Again, Sam (2022)
Retakes on Remakes
Dir. Andrew Horton and Stuart Y. McDougal
Subject: Economics
Screenwriting for a Global Market (2004)
Selling Your Scripts from Hollywood to Hong Kong
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay (2000)
Updated and Expanded edition
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Three More Screenplays by Preston Sturges (1998)
The Power and the Glory, Easy Living, and Remember the Night
by Preston Sturges and Andrew Horton
Subject: One Film > Remember the Night, The Power and the Glory, Easy Living
Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost (1994)
Dir. Michael Brashinsky, Andrew Horton and William Rothman
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
The Zero Hour (1992)
Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition
by Andrew Horton and Michael Brashinsky
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
> On a related topic:
The Cinematic Language of Theo Angelopoulos (2021)
Subject: Director > Theo Angelopoulos
The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos (2015)
Dir. Angelos Koutsourakis and Mark Steven
Subject: Director > Theo Angelopoulos
The Oneiric in the Films of David Lynch (2026)
A Phenomenological Approach
Subject: Director > David Lynch
Back
