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Aegisthus
Aeneid
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Atreus
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Balkans
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bruno Ganz
Byzantine art
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Cinema of the United States
Classical Hollywood cinema
Clytemnestra
Costas Ferris
Culture of Greece
Edmund Keeley
Eleni Karaindrou
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Erland Josephson
Eternity and a Day
Feature film
Film genre
Film industry
Film noir
Filmmaking
Filmography
Greek Civil War
Greek mythology
Greek name
Greek tragedy
Greeks
Harvey Keitel
Hellenic studies
Hellenistic period
Herodotus
James Cagney
Jean Renoir
Kolya
Landscape in the Mist
Manos Katrakis
Marcello Mastroianni
Melodrama
Michael Cacoyannis
Modern Greek
Narrative
Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Koundouros
Odysseus
Oreste
Orson Welles
Ossessione
Papadopoulos
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Poetry
Pylades
Richard Corliss
Robert Bresson
Sarajevo
Spyros Skouras
Stanley Donen
Studio system
Takis Kanellopoulos
The Bacchae
The Travelling Players
Theatre of ancient Greece
Theo Angelopoulos
Thucydides
Trojan War
Ulysses' Gaze
Voyage to Cythera
Yannis Markopoulos
Yiannis Ritsos
Zorba the Greek
Product details
- ISBN 9780691010052
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 12 Oct 1999
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world today, yet his films are still largely unknown to the American public. In the first book in English to focus on Angelopoulos's unique cinematic vision, Andrew Horton provides an illuminating contextual study that attempts to demonstrate the quintessentially Greek nature of the director's work. Horton situates the director in the context of over 3,000 years of Greek culture and history. Somewhat like Andrei Tarkovsky in Russia or Antonioni in Italy, 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 iconography and ceremony, Greek and Balkan history, modern Greek pop culture including bouzouki music, shadow puppet theater, and the Greek music hall tradition, Angelopoulos emerges as an original "thinker" with the camera, and a distinctive director who is bound to make a lasting contribution to the art form.
In a series of films including The Travelling Players, Voyage to Cythera, Landscape in the Mist, The Suspended Step of the Stork, and most recently in Ulysses' Gaze starring Harvey Keitel (winner of the 1995 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix), Angelopoulos has developed a remarkable cinematic style, characterized by carefully composed scenes and an enormous number of extended long shots. In an age of ever decreasing attention spans, Angelopoulos offers a cinema of contemplation.
Andrew 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.
