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The Films of Aki Kaurismäki: Ludic Engagements

Editat de Thomas Austin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 mar 2020
Despite creating an extensive and innovative body of work over the last 30 years, Aki Kaurismäki remains relatively neglected in Anglophone scholarship. This international collection of original essays aims to redress such neglect by assembling diverse critical inquiries into Kaurismäki's oeuvre. The first anthology on Kaurismäki to be published in English, it offers a range of voices responding to his politically and aesthetically compelling cinema. Deploying various methodologies to explore multiple facets of his work,The Films of Aki Kaurismäkiwill come to be seen as the definitive book on Kaurismäki.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501363160
ISBN-10: 1501363166
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 16 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

The first collection in English on one of the outstanding auteurs of contemporary Nordic/European cinema

Notă biografică

Thomas Austinis Reader in Media & Film at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author ofHollywood, Hype and Audiences: Selling and Watching Popular Film in the 1990s(2002) andWatching the World: Screen Documentary and Audiences(2007); and co-editor ofContemporary Hollywood Stardom(2003) andRethinking Documentary: New Perspectives, New Practices(2008).

Cuprins

List of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThomas AustinPart 1: Time and SpaceChapter 1: Temporality in Kaurismäki: Anachronism, Allusion, TableauThomas AustinChapter 2: Three Ecologies of KaurismäkiPietari KääpäChapter 3: Beyond the Edges of the Frame: The Invisible in Aki Kaurismäki's FilmsLara PerskiChapter 4: Kaurismäki and JapanEija NiskanenPart 2: Tone and Point of ViewChapter 5: The Camera's Ironic Point of View: Notes on Strange and Comic Elements in the Films of Aki KaurismäkiJaakko SeppäläChapter 6: Dreamers and Other Sentimental Fools: Money, Solidarity and Ambivalent Populism in the Films of Aki KaurismäkiPanos KompatsiarisChapter 7: The Cultural Techniques of Gesture in Aki Kaurismäki'sProletarianTrilogyAngelos KoutsourakisChapter 8: Kaurismäki's Musical Moments: Genre, Irony, Utopia, RedemptionAndrew NestingenPart 3: PerformanceChapter 9: Levels of typification in Aki Kaurismäki'sDrifting CloudsHenry BaconChapter 10: Masquerading, Underacting, and Screen Performances inHamlet GoesBusinessUlrike HansteinChapter 11: Deadpan Dogs: Kaurismäki's Canine ComediesMichael LawrenceFilmographyBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Aki Kaurismaki is a remarkable, complex auteur too often overlooked in Anglophone scholarship, and this vibrant new collection of essays seeks to redress that misfortune as well as fill in the gaps of extant work on the Finnish master. The book breaks new ground by closely connecting Kaurismaki's aesthetics-his distinctive mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound design (particularly with music)-to the much discussed, left-wing populist political messaging in his films. The editor, Thomas Austin, has curated a group of essays that dialogue with one another in refreshing ways while each scholar builds a unique and cogent position, illuminating diverse aspects of Kaurismaki's oeuvre; from his use of Brechtian distanciation, irony, and anachronism, to his ambivalent treatment of global capitalism and even the working classes he celebrates.
This is a notable collection on the cinema of Aki Kaurismäki, one of the most under-researched authors in European Cinema. It would be easy to label Kaurismäki's self-conscious and unique style, often associated with the New Sincerity movement that marks a departure from postmodernism, as predictable, but the contributors in this volume manage to avoid such aesthetic fallacy. By contrast, not only do the essays in the collection have a keen eye for the audiovisual specificity and diversity in Kaurismäki's films, they also reflect critically on the social and political implications of his aesthetic choices. This makes the volume much more than just a study of an auteur director insofar as its essays compel us to rethink the categories of style and politically engaged filmmaking.