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The films of Aki Kaurismäki : ludic engagements / edited by Thomas Austin.

Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.K384 F55 2018
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Austin, Thomas, 1966- editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Kaurismäki, Aki, 1957---Criticism and interpretation.
Kaurismäki, Aki.
Kaurismäki, Aki, 1957-.
Criticism and interpretation.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:
xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Summary:
"Provides the first collection in English to discuss the aesthetic, formal and contextual, and socio-political dimensions of the oeuvre of Finland's Aki Kaurismäki"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Temporality in Kaurismäki: anachronism, allusion, tableau / Thomas Austin
Three ecologies of Kaurismäki / Pietari Kääpä
Beyond the edges of the frame: the invisible in Aki Kaurismäki's films / Lara Perski
Kaurismäki and Japan / Eija Niskanen
The camera's ironic point of view: notes on strange and comic elements in the films of Aki Kaurismäki / Jaakko Seppälä
Dreamers and other sentimental fools: money, solidarity and ambivalent populism in the films of Aki Kaurismäki / Panos Kompatsiaris
The cultural techniques of gesture in Aki Kaurismäki's proletarian trilogy / Angelos KoutsourAkis
Kaurismäki's musical moments: genre, irony, utopia, redemption / Andrew Nestingen
Levels of typification in Aki Kaurismäki's drifting clouds / Henry Bacon
Masquerading, underacting, and screen performances in Hamlet goes
Business / Ulrike Hanstein
Deadpan dogs: Kaurismäki's canine comedies / Michael Lawrence.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
ISBN:
9781501325380
1501325388
OCLC:
1012762981

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