Record Nr.

UNINA9910269345903321

Autore

Kaapa Pietari <1977->

Titolo

The cinema of Mika Kaurismaki : transvergent cinescapes, emergent identities / / Pietari Kaapa

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Bristol, UK ; ; Chicago, : Intellect, 2011

ISBN

1-283-16270-9

9786613162700

1-84150-452-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

791.430233092

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Production and direction - Finland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The (trans)national and the Global in Mika Kaurismäki's Films; Chapter 1: The Aki/Mika Syndrome: Cosmopolitan Auteurism and the Search for Cinematic Stability; Chapter 2: Cross-genre: Transnational Genre Mutations; Chapter 3: Mapping Transnational Space at the Margins of the Global Metropolis: Representations of the City in Kaurismäki's Films; Chapter 4: Post-road: Deconstructing the European Road Movie; Chapter 5: Auto-ethnography: Merging the Self and 'Other' in Brazilian Music Documentaries

Chapter 6: Post-nation: Kaurismäki's Films in a Global SpectrumChapter 7: The Potential of Post-humanism: Kaurismäki and the Ecological Imagination; Chapter 8: The Polyphonality of Transvergence: The Reception of Kaurismäki's Cinema; Conclusion: Beyond the Happy Ending; Bibliography; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

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 -