num_pages: 162
description: Theo Angelopoulos is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers and a highly idiosyncratic film stylist. His work, from the early 1970s to The Beekeeper, Landscape in the Mist, The Suspended Step of the Stalk and the recent 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 new 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
language: English
title: The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos
titlecomplete: The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, 66)
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Praeger