The Cinema of Mika Kaurismäki : Transvergent Cinescapes, Emergent Identities.
Title:
The Cinema of Mika Kaurismäki : Transvergent Cinescapes, Emergent Identities.
Author:
Kääpä, Pietari.
ISBN:
9781841504520
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (210 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The (trans)national and the Global in Mika Kaurismäki's Films -- Chapter 1: The Aki/Mika Syndrome: Cosmopolitan Auteurism and the Search for Cinematic Stability -- Chapter 2: Cross-genre: Transnational Genre Mutations -- Chapter 3: Mapping Transnational Space at the Margins of the Global Metropolis: Representations of the City in Kaurismäki's Films -- Chapter 4: Post-road: Deconstructing the European Road Movie -- Chapter 5: Auto-ethnography: Merging the Self and 'Other' in Brazilian Music Documentaries -- Chapter 6: Post-nation: Kaurismäki's Films in a Global Spectrum -- Chapter 7: The Potential of Post-humanism: Kaurismäki and the Ecological Imagination -- Chapter 8: The Polyphonality of Transvergence: The Reception of Kaurismäki's Cinema -- Conclusion: Beyond the Happy Ending -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
Mika Kaurismäki's films challenge many boundaries - national societies, genre formations, art/popular culture, fiction/documentary, humanity/nature, and problematic distinctions between different zones of development. Synthesizing concepts from a range of thematic frameworks - e.g. auteurism, eco-philosophy, genre, cartography, cineaste networks, global reception, distribution and exhibition practices, and the potential of postnationalism - this book provides an interdisciplinary reading of Kaurismäki's cinema. The notion of 'transvergence' - of thinking in heterogeneous and polyphonal terms - emerges as an analytical method for exploring the power of these films. Through this, the volume encourages rethinking transnational cinema studies in relation to many oft-debated notions such as Finnish culture, European identity, cosmopolitanism and globalization.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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