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<<The>> national and beyond the globalisation of Finnish cinema in the films of Aki and Mika Kaurismäki Pietari Kääpä.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.K384 K33 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kääpä, Pietari, 1977- Creator.
- Series:
- New studies in European cinema ; 12 (RERO)R003739432-41slsp
- New studies in European cinema vol. 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures and globalization.
- Kaurismäki, Aki, 1957---Criticism and interpretation.
- Kaurismäki, Aki.
- Kaurismäki, Mika--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kaurismäki, Mika.
- Kaurismäki, Aki 1957-....
- Kaurismäki, Mika 1955-....
- Kaurismäki, Aki, 1957-.
- Local Subjects:
- Kaurismäki, Aki 1957-....
- Kaurismäki, Mika 1955-....
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 289 p. 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford Bern [etc.] P. Lang 2010
- Summary:
- The films of Aki and Mika Kaurismaki are part of a globalising Finnish cinema, challenging conventional parameters at every turn. This work examines the films that the Kaurismakis produced, individually and in collaboration, between 1981 and 1995 - films which mobilise various methods to reflect, criticise, counteract and contribute to the globalisation of Finnish society in the era of late capitalist development. This work provides an in-depth analysis of these films, exploring the aesthetic and narrative content of the films as well as their production and reception in Finland. The theoretical scope of the work situates the films not only in the field of transnational cinema, but also that of `post-national' cinema. Exploring the Kaurismakis' films in a post-national framework points to new, emergent understandings of both the fragility and the persistence of national culture and identity in a globalising world. --Book Jacket.
- Contents:
- The cultural context of the Kaurismäkis: Finnish films for Finnish people?
- Developing post-national forms of cinema, 1981-1985. Displaced souls lost in Finland: the Kaurismäki's films as the cinema of the marginalised
- Between convergence and divergence: the transvergent cinemas of Aki and Mika Kaurismäki
- life in a capitalist welfare state: marginal hope and dystopian prophecies
- Socio-economic exclusion and the fragmented individual. Aki Kaurismäki's proletarian trilogy and Hamlet Liikemaailmassa
- Mika Kaurismäki's "life-politics trilogy" post-nationalism between the welfare state and global capitalism
- The international adventures of the Kaurismäkis. The search for post-national stability: Mika Kaurismäki's international films, 1987-1990
- The problems of post-national integration: Aki Kaurismäki's international films, 1989-1992
- Transnational travel and the difficulty of "home": projecting the post-national condition for an EU-integrated Finland
- A return to home: Aki Kaurismäki's Leningrad cowboys meet Moses, Total balalaika show and Pida Huivistasi Kiinni Tatjana
- A farewell to Finland: Mika Kaurismäki's The last border and Tigrero, the film that was never made
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index.
- Includes filmography: pages 279-283.
- ISBN:
- 9783039119660
- 3039119664
- OCLC:
- 1284624534
- Publisher Number:
- 99996699454
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