The Films of Aki Kaurismäki Ludic Engagements / edited by Thomas Austin.

Other author Austin, Thomas, 1966-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Descriptionxii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018033044
ISBN9781501325380 (hardback : alk. paper)
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