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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823482503321

Titolo

Directory of world cinema Finland / / edited by Pietari Kaapa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK ; ; Chicago, IL, : Intellect, 2012

ISBN

1-299-46986-8

1-84150-666-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Directory of world cinema, , 2040-7971 ; ; v. 13

Altri autori (Persone)

KääpäPietari <1977->

Disciplina

791.43028

791.43094897

Soggetti

Motion picture industry - Finland

Motion pictures - Finland

Motion pictures - Finland - History

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 (p. [266]-269) and filmography.

Nota di contenuto

FrontCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction by the Editor; Film of the Year; Rare Exports; Directors; Aki Kaurismäki; Erkki Karu; Matti Kassila; Mikko Niskanen; Pirjo Honkasalo; Rauni Mollberg; Risto Jarva; T.J. Särkkä; Teuvo Tulio; Valentin Vaala; Stars; The Emergence of the Star System; Kati Outinen; Matti Pellonpää; Tauno Palo; Vesa-Matti Loiri; Industrial Spotlight; The Economics of Finnish Cinema Part 1: 1910-1935; Scoring Cinema; Silent Cinema; Essay; Reviews; War; Essay; Reviews; Contemporary Film and Literature; Essay; Reviews; Social Realism; Essay; Reviews

GenreEssay; Reviews; Comedy; Essay; Reviews; Children's Film; Essay; Reviews; Documentary; Essay; Reviews; Cinema and the Environment; Essay; Reviews; Global Finland; Essay; Reviews; The Futures of Finnish Cinema; Recommended Reading; Finnish Cinema Online; Test Your Knowledge; Notes on Contributors; Filmography; BackCover

Sommario/riassunto

An important addition to Intellect's popular series, Directory of World Cinema: Finland provides historical and cultural overviews of the country's cinema. Over the course of their contributions to this volume, scholars from a variety of disciplines construct a collective argument that complicates the dominant international view of Finnish cinema as a small-scale industry dominated by realist art-house films.