The cinema of Aki Kaurismaki : contrarian stories / Andrew Nestingen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nestingen, Andrew K.

Series:

Directors' Cuts

Directors' cuts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kaurismäki, Aki, 1957---Criticism and interpretation.

Kaurismäki, Aki.

Motion pictures--Finland.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Aki Kaurismäki is an enigma, an eminent auteur who claims his films are a joke. Since 1983, Kaurismäki has produced classically-styled films filled with cinephilic references to film history. He has earned an international art-house audience and many prizes, influencing such directors as Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, and Wes Anderson. Yet Kaurismäki is often depicted as the loneliest, most nostalgic of Finns (except when he promotes his films, makes political statements, and runs his many businesses). He is also depicted as a bohemian known for outlandish actions and statements. The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki is the first comprehensive English-language study of this eccentric director. Drawing on revisionist approaches to film authorship, the text links the filmmaker and his films to the stories and issues animating film aesthetics and history, nostalgia, late modernity, politics, commerce, film festivals, and national cinema.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The Auteur

2. The Bohemian

3. The Nostalgic

4. The Finn

Appendix: A Conversation with Aki Kaurismäki

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231850414

0231850417

OCLC:

854970027