The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos

By Andrew Horton

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313305641
• ISBN13: 9780313305641
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"