Description
A novel and original reading of Theo Angelopoulos' films arguing for their political and existential depth.
About the Author
Vrasidas Karalis is Sir Nicholas Laurantus Professor of Modern Greek and Chair of Modern Greek at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is author of Realism in Greek Cinema (I.B.Tauris, 2017), Cornelius Castoriadis and Radical Democracy (2014), A History of Greek Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2012), Power, Judgment and Political Evil: In Conversation with Hannah Arendt (2010).
Reviews
This book has impressively decoded the potential of philosophical complexities in Angelopoulos' films. Vrasidas Karalis has un-framed the director's cinematic language from traditional filmic reasoning and previously marked spatiotemporal ocular 'slowness', to reach the anti-rhetorical interpretation in terms of: visuality, aesthetics and logic towards Angelopoulos' art. * Grzegorz Pamrow, CEO, Speakers' Avenue, Educational Film Collective, Poland *
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. * Adrian Martin, Adjunct Professor of Film and Media Studies, Monash University, Australia *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350245365
Author Vrasidas Karalis
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC