The Cinema of Mika Kaurismäki Transvergent Cinescapes, Emergent Identities

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol Intellect 2011
• Subjects: auteurism; cinema; Europe; film studies; Finland; genre; Globalization; Media & Communications; mika kaurismäki; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema; transnational
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• ISBN: 9781841504520; j.ctv9hj8rv
• Access: Open Access

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 - emerges as an analytical method for exploring the power of these films. Through this, the volume encourages rethinking transnational cinema studies in relation to many oft-debated notions such as Finnish culture, European identity, cosmopolitanism and globalization.