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Angelopoulos, Theo (Subject); Horton, Andrew (Editor) & Various Contributors : The Last Modernist: The Films Of Theo Angelopoulos

Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1997

ISBN 0313305641

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 140 pages. Landmark collection of essays on subject. The single best introduction to the art of Theo Angelopoulos. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only and as Volume 66 of the "Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture" Series. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents "The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos". One of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers, and a highly idiosyncratic film stylist. "His work, from the early 1970's to 'The Beekeeper', 'Landscape in The Mist', 'The Suspended Step of The Stalk', and the Cannes prize-winner, 'Ulysses' Gaze', demonstrates a unique sensibility and a preoccupation with form (notably, the long take, space, and time) and with content, particularly Greek politics and history, and notions of the journey, border-crossing, and exile. This collection of essays surveys his entire cinematic output and presents a discussion of his major films, themes, and concerns. The contributors argue that Angelopoulos' sustained oeuvre has kept alive the tradition of postwar Modernism, that is, the cinema of Antonioni, Jancso, and Ozu, in the largely hostile environment of the 1980's and 1990's. A major work for lovers of contemporary European film" (Publisher's blurb). The contributors are a very diverse lot: The Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Wilmington weighs in with as much insight and gravitas as the philosopher Fredric Jameson, who contributes what is probably the single most dense appreciation of Angelopoulos' sublime films. Theo Angelopoulos died on January 24, 2012, his reputation as the greatest Greek film artist of our time secure. An absolute "must-have" title for Theo Angelopoulos collectors. This title is a contemporary film classic. This is one of few copies of the First Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with film stills from Theo Angelopoulos' oeuvre. One of the greatest film artists of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0313305641.

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