The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos

Angelos Koutsourakis; Mark Steven

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2015

The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos

Angelos Koutsourakis and Mark Steven

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748697960

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Demonstrates how the films of Theo Angelopoulos react aesthetically to their historical period

The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is the first critical assessment of one of the leading figures of modernist European art cinema. Assessing his complete works, this groundbreaking collection brings together a team of internationally regarded experts and emerging scholars from multiple disciplines, to provide a definitive account of Angelopoulos’ formal reactions to the historical events that determined life during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Refusing to restrict its approach to the confines of the Greek national film industry, the book approaches his work as representative of modernism more generally, and in particular of the modernist imperative to document its allusive historical objects through artistic innovation.

Retrospective in nature, The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos argues that Angelopoulos’ films are not emblems of a bygone historical and cultural era or abstract exercises in artistic style, but are foreshadowing documents that speak to the political complexities and economic contradictions of the present.

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Contributors

Maria Chalkou holds a PhD in Film Theory and History (University of Glasgow).
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is Head of the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool.
Caroline Eades is Associate Professor in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Hamish Ford is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Dan Georgakas has been one of the editors of Cineaste film quarterly since 1969.
Asbjørn Grønstad is Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University Of Bergen.
Andrew Horton is Jeanne H. Smith Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma, an award-winning screenwriter, and the author of twenty-seven books on film, screenwriting and cultural studies.
Fredric Jameson is the author of Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), which won the MLA Lowell Award.
Smaro Kamboureli is the Avie Bennett Professor in Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto.
Vrasidas Karalis is a Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Sydney.
Alexander Kluge is a political philosopher, author, filmmaker and co-writer of the Oberhausen Manifesto (1962).
Julian Murphet is Professor in Modern Film and Literature at the University of New South Wales and the Director of the Centre for Modernism studies in Australia.
Dany Nobus is Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for External Affairs at Brunel University London.
Nagisa Oshima (1932–2013) was an influential Japanese filmmaker and scriptwriter.
Nektaria Pouli teaches courses in Psychology at St Mary’s University, South Bank University and the Open University.
Sylvie Rollet is Professor in Film Studies at the University of Poitiers and has previously taught at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University.
Richard Rushton is Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University, UK.
Robert Sinnerbrink is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Note on the Text Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Foreword Alexander Kluge Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction – Angelopoulos and the Lingua Franca of Modernism Angelos Koutsourakis and Mark Steven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Authorship
1. Theo Angelopoulos as Film Critic Maria Chalkou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. Two Short Essays on Angelopoulos’ Early Films Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3. Generative Apogee and Elegiac Expansion: European Film Modernism from Antonioni to Angelopoulos Hamish Ford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4. The Gestus of Showing: Brecht, Tableaux and Early Cinema in Angelopoulos’ Political Period (1970–80) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
5. Angelopoulos’ Gaze: Modernism, History, Cinematic Ethics Robert Sinnerbrink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Part II. Politics
6. Angelopoulos and Collective Narrative Fredric Jameson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
7. Theo Angelopoulos’ Early Films and the Demystification of Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
8. Megalexandros: Authoritarianism and National Identity Dan Georgakas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
9. Tracks in the Eurozone: Late Style Meets Late Capitalism Mark Steven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Part III. Poetics
10. Cinematography of the Group: Angelopoulos and the Collective Subject of Cinema Julian Murphet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
11. The Narrative Imperative in the Films of Theo Angelopoulos Caroline Eades Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
12. Syncope and Fractal Liminality: Theo Angelopoulos’ Voyage to Cythera and the Question of Borders Dany Nobus and Nektaria Pouli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
13. Landscape in the Mist: Thinking Beyond the Perimeter Fence Stephanie Hemelryk Donald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
14. An ‘Untimely’ History Sylvie Rollet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Part IV. Time
15. Angelopoulos and the Time-image Richard Rushton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
16. Memory Under Siege: Archive Fever in Theo Angelopoulos’ Ulysses’ Gaze Smaro Kamboureli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
17. ‘Nothing Ever Ends’: Angelopoulos and the Image of Duration Asbjørn Grønstad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
Afterword – Theo Angelopoulos’ Unfinished Odyssey: The Other Sea Andrew Horton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Theo Angelopoulos’ Filmography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Other: 21 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: October 8, 2015
ISBN: 9780748697960