The Films of Aki Kaurismaki - Ludic Engagements

Despite creating an extensive and innovative body of work over the last 30 years, Aki Kaurismaki remains relatively neglected in Anglophone scholarship. This international collection of original essays aims to redress such neglect by assembling diverse critical inquiries into Kaurismaki''s oeuvre. The first anthology on Kaurismaki to be published in English, it offers a range of voices responding to his politically and aesthetically compelling cinema. Deploying various methodologies to explore multiple facets of his work, The Films of Aki Kaurismaki will come to be seen as the definitive book on Kaurismaki.>

About the author

Thomas Austin is Reader in Media & Film at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Hollywood, Hype and Audiences: Selling and Watching Popular Film in the 1990s (2002) and Watching the World: Screen Documentary and Audiences (2007); and co-editor of Contemporary Hollywood Stardom (2003) and Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives, New Practices (2008).

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Austin, Thomas (University of Sussex Austin, Austin Thomas
• Assisted by: Thomas Austin (Editor), Thomas (University of Sussex Austin (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781501325380
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-2538-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV