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The Films of Theo Angelopoulos
Andrew Horton
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Description for The Films of Theo Angelopoulos
Paperback. Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world, yet his films are still largely unknown to the American public. This title provides a contextual study that attempts to demonstrate the quintessentially Greek nature of the director's work. Series: Princeton Modern Greek Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVG; APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Modern Greek Studies
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691010052
SKU
V9780691010052
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About Andrew Horton
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.
Reviews for The Films of Theo Angelopoulos
"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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more