The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos

The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos
Format
Paperback
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Country
United States
Published
7 August 1997
Pages
144
ISBN
9780275961190

The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos

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

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