Theo Angelopoulos

Zusatztext Vrasidas Karalis's new book on the inexhaustible, profound and mysterious cinema of Theo Angelopoulos offers a bold and original argument. Can philosophical thinking occur purely through the work of images, without standard plots and characters? Karalis affirms and demonstrates this possibility in all its historical complexity. It's an extraordinary achievement. Informationen zum Autor Vrasidas Karalis Klappentext 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. Vorwort A novel and original reading of Theo Angelopoulos' films arguing for their political and existential depth. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: against the historicist imprisonment of art2. The quest for existential poesis Or Prelude to Theo Angelopoulos' Iconosophy 3. On First Encountering Theo Angelopoulos Or on the Existential Grounding of films4. On Seeing films Philosophically Or from Politics to Existence5. On Being, Loss & Memory Or the social ontology of historicity6. 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 Sublime8. Visual Essay: The Discovery of the Psyche Bibliography Index ...

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt
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

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