The Cinema of Mika Kaurismäki Transvergent Cinescapes, Emergent Identities |
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| Kaapa, Pietari |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84150-409-4 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Publisher: | Intellect, Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $35.50 |
Book Description:
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Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki's films challenge the boundaries of nations, genre formations, art and popular culture, and fiction and documentary. Synthesizing concepts from a range of thematic frameworks, including transnationalism, eco-philosophy, architectural theory, and cartography, this book provides an interdisciplinary reading of Kaurismäki's body of work. The notion of "transvergence"--thinking in heterogeneous and polyphonal terms--emerges as an analytical method for...
More DescriptionFinnish director Mika Kaurismäki's films challenge the boundaries of nations, genre formations, art and popular culture, and fiction and documentary. Synthesizing concepts from a range of thematic frameworks, including transnationalism, eco-philosophy, architectural theory, and cartography, this book provides an interdisciplinary reading of Kaurismäki's body of work. The notion of "transvergence"--thinking in heterogeneous and polyphonal terms--emerges as an analytical method for exploring the power of these films. Through this method, the book encourages a rethinking of transnational cinema studies in relation to many oft-debated notions such as Finnish culture, European identity, cosmopolitanism and globalization.
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