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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.>
Sommario
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Thomas Austin
Part 1: Time and Space
Chapter 1: Temporality in Kaurismäki: Anachronism, Allusion, Tableau
Thomas Austin
Chapter 2: Three Ecologies of Kaurismäki
Pietari Kääpä
Chapter 3: Beyond the Edges of the Frame: The Invisible in Aki Kaurismäki’s Films
Lara Perski
Chapter 4: Kaurismäki and Japan
Eija Niskanen
Part 2: Tone and Point of View
Chapter 5: The Camera’s Ironic Point of View: Notes on Strange and Comic Elements in the Films of Aki Kaurismäki
Jaakko Seppälä
Chapter 6: Dreamers and Other Sentimental Fools: Money, Solidarity and Ambivalent Populism in the Films of Aki Kaurismäki
Panos Kompatsiaris
Chapter 7: The Cultural Techniques of Gesture in Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletarian Trilogy
Angelos Koutsourakis
Chapter 8: Kaurismäki’s Musical Moments: Genre, Irony, Utopia, Redemption
Andrew Nestingen
Part 3: Performance
Chapter 9: Levels of typification in Aki Kaurismäki’s Drifting Clouds
Henry Bacon
Chapter 10: Masquerading, Underacting, and Screen Performances in Hamlet Goes Business
Ulrike Hanstein
Chapter 11: Deadpan Dogs: Kaurismäki’s Canine Comedies
Michael Lawrence
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
Info autore
Thomas Austin is Senior Lecturer in Media & Film Studies 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).
Riassunto
Despite creating an extensive and innovative body of work over the last 30 years, Aki Kaurismäki remains relatively neglected in Anglophone scholarship. This international collection of original essays aims to redress such neglect by assembling diverse critical inquiries into Kaurismäki’s oeuvre. The first anthology on Kaurismäki 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 Kaurismäki will come to be seen as the definitive book on Kaurismäki.
Prefazione
Provides the first collection in English to discuss the aesthetic, formal and contextual, and socio-political dimensions of the oeuvre of Finland's Aki Kaurismäki.
Testo aggiuntivo
This is a notable collection on the cinema of Aki Kaurismäki, one of the most under-researched authors in European Cinema. It would be easy to label Kaurismäki’s self-conscious and unique style, often associated with the New Sincerity movement that marks a departure from postmodernism, as predictable, but the contributors in this volume manage to avoid such aesthetic fallacy. By contrast, not only do the essays in the collection have a keen eye for the audiovisual specificity and diversity in Kaurismäki’s films, they also reflect critically on the social and political implications of his aesthetic choices. This makes the volume much more than just a study of an auteur director insofar as its essays compel us to rethink the categories of style and politically engaged filmmaking.
