Vrasidas Karalis is Associate Professor in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has published extensively on Greek culture, history and art. He is the editor of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand). In the area of film studies he has published on Theo Angelopoulos, Sergei Eisenstein and Alfred Hitchcock.

1. Introduction: against the historicist imprisonment of art
2. The quest for existential poesis Or Prelude to Theo Angelopoulos' Iconosophy
3. On First Encountering Theo Angelopoulos Or on the Existential Grounding of films
4. On Seeing films Philosophically Or from Politics to Existence
5. On Being, Loss & Memory Or the social ontology of historicity
6. On Redemption: Saving the Phenomena and the Dread of Shadows in Eternity and a Day
7. The Risk of Being Tempted by the 'Déjà vu' Or on the Ontological Sublime
8. Visual Essay: The Discovery of the Psyche
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