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.
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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.