Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Note on the Text ix
6. Foreword x
7. Introduction – Angelopoulos and the Lingua Franca of Modernism 1
8. Part I. Authorship
9. 1. Theo Angelopoulos as Film Critic 23
10. 2. Two Short Essays on Angelopoulos’ Early Films 39
11. 3. Generative Apogee and Elegiac Expansion: European Film Modernism from Antonioni to Angelopoulos 45
12. 4. The Gestus of Showing: Brecht, Tableaux and Early Cinema in Angelopoulos’ Political Period (1970–80) 64
13. 5. Angelopoulos’ Gaze: Modernism, History, Cinematic Ethics 80
14. Part II. Politics
15. 6. Angelopoulos and Collective Narrative 99
16. 7. Theo Angelopoulos’ Early Films and the Demystification of Power 114
17. 8. Megalexandros: Authoritarianism and National Identity 129
18. 9. Tracks in the Eurozone: Late Style Meets Late Capitalism 141
19. Part III. Poetics
20. 10. Cinematography of the Group: Angelopoulos and the Collective Subject of Cinema 159
21. 11. The Narrative Imperative in the Films of Theo Angelopoulos 175
22. 12. Syncope and Fractal Liminality: Theo Angelopoulos’ Voyage to Cythera and the Question of Borders 191
23. 13. Landscape in the Mist: Thinking Beyond the Perimeter Fence 206
24. 14. An ‘Untimely’ History 219
25. Part IV. Time
26. 15. Angelopoulos and the Time-image 235
27. 16. Memory Under Siege: Archive Fever in Theo Angelopoulos’ Ulysses’ Gaze 249
28. 17. ‘Nothing Ever Ends’: Angelopoulos and the Image of Duration 264
29. Afterword – Theo Angelopoulos’ Unfinished Odyssey: The Other Sea 275
30. Theo Angelopoulos’ Filmography 292
31. Notes on Contributors 301
32. Bibliography 304
33. Index 317