The cinema of Mika Kaurismäki : transvergent cinescapes, emergent identities

The cinema of Mika Kaurismäki : transvergent cinescapes, emergent identities /

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, e...

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Main Author: Kääpä, Pietari, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2011
Subjects:
Kaurismäki, Mika > Criticism and interpretation.
Motion pictures > Production and direction > Finland.
Motion picture producers and directors > Finland.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The (trans)national and the Global in Mika Kaurismäki's Films
  • The Aki/Mika Syndrome: Cosmopolitan Auteurism and the Search for Cinematic Stability
  • Cross-genre: Transnational Genre Mutations
  • Mapping Transnational Space at the Margins of the Global Metropolis: Representations of the City in Kaurismäki's Films
  • Post-road: Deconstructing the European Road Movie
  • Auto-ethnography: Merging the Self and 'Other' in Brazilian Music Documentaries
  • Post-nation: Kaurismäki's Films in a Global Spectrum
  • The Potential of Post-humanism: Kaurismäki and the Ecological Imagination
  • The Polyphonality of Transvergence: The Reception of Kaurismäki's Cinema
  • Conclusion: Beyond the Happy Ending.

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