The films of Aki Kaurismäki : ludic engagements /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Austin, Thomas, 1966- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Temporality in Kaurismäki: anachronism, allusion, tableau / Thomas Austin
  • Three ecologies of Kaurismäki / Pietari Kääpä
  • Beyond the edges of the frame: the invisible in Aki Kaurismäki's films / Lara Perski
  • Kaurismäki and Japan / Eija Niskanen
  • The camera's ironic point of view: notes on strange and comic elements in the films of Aki Kaurismäki / Jaakko Seppälä
  • Dreamers and other sentimental fools: money, solidarity and ambivalent populism in the films of Aki Kaurismäki / Panos Kompatsiaris
  • The cultural techniques of gesture in Aki Kaurismäki's proletarian trilogy / Angelos KoutsourAkis
  • Kaurismäki's musical moments: genre, irony, utopia, redemption / Andrew Nestingen
  • Levels of typification in Aki Kaurismäki's drifting clouds / Henry Bacon
  • Masquerading, underacting, and screen performances in Hamlet goes
  • Business / Ulrike Hanstein
  • Deadpan dogs: Kaurismäki's canine comedies / Michael Lawrence.