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Overview"Focusing on Angelopoulos' cinematic vision, this text provides a contextual study that attempts to demonstrate the quintessentially Greek nature of the director's work. The book situates the director in the context of over 3000 years of Greek culture and history. Angelopoulos has used cinema to explore the history and individual identities of his culture. With such far-reaching influences as Greek myth, ancient tragedy and epic, Byzantine inconography and ceremony, Greek and Balkan history, modern Greek pop culture (including bouzouki music), shadow puppet theatre and the Greek music hall tradition, Angelopoulos emerges as an original ""thinker"" with the camera and a distinctive director." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew HortonPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Edition: Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780691010052ISBN 10: 0691010056 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 12 October 1999 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of Contents"PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Voyage beyond the Borders3Ch. 1Cinema and the Borders of Greek Culture25Ch. 2The Moving Pattern of Images: Greek History and Individual Perspectives55Ch. 3Angelopoulos, the Continuous Image, and Cinema73Ch. 4Reconstruction: ""Help Me, I'm Lost""91Ch. 5The Travelling Players: Figures in the Landscape of Myth and History102Ch. 6Voyage to Cythera: ""One ... Two ... Oh, My God. I'm Out of Step""127Ch. 7Landscape in the Mist: A Documentary Fairy Tale144Ch. 8The Suspended Step of the Stork: ""If I Take One More Step, I Will Be Somewhere Else""161Ch. 9Ulysses' Gaze: ""We Are Dying People""181Conclusions: From the Cinematic Gaze to a Culture of Links202Filmography211Bibliography217Index223"ReviewsThis [book] . . . could not have come at a better time or from a more qualified critic. . . . Andrew Horton opens the door to a complex body of work and will do much to correct the notion that Angelopoulos is simply an eccentric individualist or a director overly infatuated with technique. Andrew Horton anatomizes a unique aesthetic sensibility, investigating the power of these images with his own impressive powers of observation and learning. -- Jack Granath, Rain Taxi [A] thorough study of Angelopoulos... This is the first book on Angelopoulos in English... Horton comments knowledgeably on the many directors who have influenced Angelopoulos...and on the artistic influences of the Greek Orthodox church and Byzantine and classical Greek culture. -- Choice This [book] ... could not have come at a better time or from a more qualified critic... Andrew Horton opens the door to a complex body of work and will do much to correct the notion that Angelopoulos is simply an eccentric individualist or a director overly infatuated with technique. -- Dan Georgakas, Film Quarterly Author InformationAndrew Horton is Jeanne H. Smith Professor of Film and Video Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Writing the Character Centered Screenplay, Russian Critics on a Cinema of Glasnost, and Comedy/Cinema/Theory, and coauthor, with Michael Brashinsky, of The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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