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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).
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. * Grzegorz Pamrow, CEO, Speakers' Avenue, Educational Film Collective, Poland * Vrasidas Karalis's new book on the inexhaustible, profound and mysterious cinema of Theo Angelopoulos offers a bold and original argument. Can philosophical thinking occur purely through the work of images, without standard plots and characters? Karalis affirms and demonstrates this possibility in all its historical complexity. It's an extraordinary achievement. * Adrian Martin, Adjunct Professor of Film and Media Studies, Monash University, Australia * Vrasidas Karalis' return to Theo Angelopoulos' work illustrates not only the latter's extraordinary wealth but also the former's indefatigable desire to bring Greek cinema to international focus. Through the philosophical exploration of Angelopoulos' films, Karalis demonstrates their relevance to contemporary questions regarding the ontology of the cinematic image. Thoroughly recommended. * Eleftheria Thanouli, Professor in Film Theory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece *
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