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1 online resource (210 pages) |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 - |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208). |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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Kaurismäki, Mika -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Kaurismäki, Mika. (OCoLC)fst00303412
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Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Finland.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Films, cinema.
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Motion pictures -- Production and direction.
(OCoLC)fst01027357
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Finland. (OCoLC)fst01205503
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kääpä, Pietari. Cinema of Mika Kaurismäki : Transvergent Cinescapes, Emergent Identities. Bristol : Intellect, ©2011 9781841504094 |
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9786613162700 |
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9781841504520 (electronic bk.) |
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1841504521 (electronic bk.) |
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9781841504094 |
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1841504092 |
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