Vrasidas Karalis

Theo Angelopoulos (eBook, PDF)

Filmmaker and Philosopher

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350245372
• Artikelnr.: 66444436

Autorenporträt

Vrasidas Karalis is Associate Professor in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has published extensively on Greek culture, history and art. He is the editor of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand). In the area of film studies he has published on Theo Angelopoulos, Sergei Eisenstein and Alfred Hitchcock.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: against the historicist imprisonment of art
2. The quest for existential poesis Or Prelude to Theo Angelopoulos'
Iconosophy
3. On First Encountering Theo Angelopoulos Or on the Existential Grounding
of films
4. On Seeing films Philosophically Or from Politics to Existence
5. On Being, Loss & Memory Or the social ontology of historicity
6. On Redemption: Saving the Phenomena and the Dread of Shadows in
Eternity and a Day
7. The Risk of Being Tempted by the 'Déjà vu' Or on the Ontological Sublime
8. Visual Essay: The Discovery of the Psyche
Bibliography
Index