The cinema of Mika Kaurismaki transvergent cinescapes, emergent identities

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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kaapa, Pietari, 1977- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect 2011.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432218406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The (trans)national and the Global in Mika Kaurismäki's Films; Chapter 1: The Aki/Mika Syndrome: Cosmopolitan Auteurism and the Search for Cinematic Stability; Chapter 2: Cross-genre: Transnational Genre Mutations; Chapter 3: Mapping Transnational Space at the Margins of the Global Metropolis: Representations of the City in Kaurismäki's Films; Chapter 4: Post-road: Deconstructing the European Road Movie; Chapter 5: Auto-ethnography: Merging the Self and 'Other' in Brazilian Music Documentaries
  • Chapter 6: Post-nation: Kaurismäki's Films in a Global SpectrumChapter 7: The Potential of Post-humanism: Kaurismäki and the Ecological Imagination; Chapter 8: The Polyphonality of Transvergence: The Reception of Kaurismäki's Cinema; Conclusion: Beyond the Happy Ending; Bibliography; Back Cover