Wider Screen 02/2007: The cinema of Aki Kaurismäki – The Politics of
Contradiction
A special issue of Wider Screen designed to illuminate the wide-ranging
and multifaceted cultural life of Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki's films:
http://www.widerscreen.fi/2007/2/index.htm
The films of Aki Kaurismäki are multifaceted texts that balance between a
variety of cultural tropes. The films are simultaneously national and
international; they deal with Finnish national myths alongside the
globalisation of national culture; the films blur the distinctions between
high culture and low culture both in terms of thematics and aesthetics;
they circulate the globe in both commercial and festival releases, gaining
widely discrepant critical and commercial receptions.
The issue contains the following contributions:
Introduction by the guest editor:
- The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki - The Politics of Contradiction
Pietari Kääpä
http://www.widerscreen.fi/2007/2/esipuhe_the_cinema_of_aki_kaurismaki.htm
Articles:
- Aki Kaurismäki and Nation: The Contrarian Cinema
Andrew Nestingen
http://www.widerscreen.fi/2007/2/aki_kaurismaki_and_nation.htm
- A Place to Go? Exploring liminal space in Aki Kaurismäki's I Hired a
Contract Killer (1990)
Paul Newland
http://www.widerscreen.fi/2007/2/place_to_go.htm
- The Politics of National Identity in Aki Kaurismäki's Leningrad Cowboys
Trilogy
Pietari Kääpä
http://www.widerscreen.fi/2007/2/politics_of_national_identity.htm
- Työväenluokkainen maskuliinisuus ja ruumiillisuus Aki Kaurismäen
elokuvissa Kauas pilvet karkaavat ja Mies vailla menneisyyttä
Kaisa Toivonen
http://www.widerscreen.fi/2007/2/tyovaenluokkainen_maskuliinisuus_ja_ruumiillisuus.htm
- Soup, soap and national reawakening The national ambiguous role of the
salvation army in The Man without Past (2002)
Sanna Peden
http://www.widerscreen.fi/2007/2/soup_soap_and_national_reawakening.htm
Book review:
Tekijän muotokuva
- Peter von Bagh: Aki Kaurismäki
Jussi Kaisjoki
http://www.widerscreen.fi/2007/2/aki_kaurismaki.htm
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