Theo Angelopoulos

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).

• 1. Introduction: against the historicist imprisonment of art2. The quest for existential poesis Or Prelude to Theo Angelopoulos’ Iconosophy3. On First Encountering Theo Angelopoulos Or on the Existential Grounding of films4. On Seeing films Philosophically Or from Politics to Existence5. On Being, Loss & Memory Or the social ontology of historicity6. On Redemption: Saving the Phenomena and the Dread of Shadows in Eternity and a Day7. The Risk of Being Tempted by the ‘Déjà vu’ Or on the Ontological Sublime8. Visual Essay: The Discovery of the PsycheBibliographyIndex

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.