The Films of Theo Angelopoulos : : A Cinema of Contemplation / / Andrew Horton.

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 ill...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
©1997
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:With a New afterword by the author
Language:English
Series:Princeton Modern Greek Studies ; 42
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 14 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. The Voyage beyond the Borders
  • PART ONE: CULTURE, HISTORY, CINEMA
  • Chapter One. Cinema and the Borders of Greek Culture
  • Chapter Two. The Moving Pattern of Images: Greek History and Individual Perspectives
  • Chapter Three. Angelopoulos, the Continuous Image, and Cinema
  • PART TWO: FIVE FILMS
  • Chapter Four. Reconstruction: "Help Me, I'm Lost"
  • Chapter Five. The Travelling Players: Figures in the Landscape of Myth and History
  • Chapter Six. Voyage to Cythera: "One... Two ... Oh, My God. I'm Out of Step"
  • Chapter Seven. Landscape in the Mist: A Documentary Fairy Tale
  • Chapter Eight. The Suspended Step of the Stork: "If I Take One More Step, I Will Be Somewhere Else"
  • PART THREE: CONCLUSIONS
  • Chapter Nine Ulysses' Gaze: "We Are Dying People"
  • Conclusions. From the Cinematic Gaze to a Culture of Links
  • Afterword. The Pleasures of Eternity and a Day: "Life Is Sweet and..."
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index