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Theo Angelopoulos

By Vrasidas Karalis

Theo Angelopoulos Philosophy

Theo Angelopoulos

By Vrasidas Karalis

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2023-01-26
Publication Date:
2023-01-26
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1350245356
ISBN13:
9781350245358
Weight:
399 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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