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1 online resource (208 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208). |
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 11/24/2020). |
| Contents |
Introduction: The (trans)national and the Global in Mika Kaurismäki's Films -- The Aki/Mika Syndrome: Cosmopolitan Auteurism and the Search for Cinematic Stability -- Cross-genre: Transnational Genre Mutations -- Mapping Transnational Space at the Margins of the Global Metropolis: Representations of the City in Kaurismäki's Films -- Post-road: Deconstructing the European Road Movie -- Auto-ethnography: Merging the Self and 'Other' in Brazilian Music Documentaries -- Post-nation: Kaurismäki's Films in a Global Spectrum -- The Potential of Post-humanism: Kaurismäki and the Ecological Imagination -- The Polyphonality of Transvergence: The Reception of Kaurismäki's Cinema -- Conclusion: Beyond the Happy Ending. |
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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 - |
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Kaurismäki, Mika -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Kaurismäki, Mika
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Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Finland.
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Motion picture producers and directors -- Finland.
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Cinéma -- Production et réalisation -- Finlande.
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Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma -- Finlande.
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Films, cinema.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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ART -- General.
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Motion picture producers and directors
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Motion pictures -- Production and direction
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Finland
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kääpä, Pietari, 1977-. The cinema of Mika Kaurismäki : transvergent cinescapes, emergent identities. Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, [2011] 9781841504094 |
| ISBN |
9781841504520 (eisbn) |
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1841504521 |
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9781841504094 (pbk) |
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1841504092 |
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9786613162700 |
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NZ1 14256357 |
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HEBIS 299823954 |
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GBVCP 1020647019 |
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DEBSZ 493088962 |
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DEBBG BV044153346 |
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CHVBK 556236734 |
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CHNEW 001035212 |
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AU@ 000053011857 |
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