TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pietari Kääpä
PY  - 2011
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1661-0261
SN  - 9783035300345
TI  - The National and Beyond
T2  - The Globalisation of Finnish Cinema in the Films of Aki and Mika Kaurismäki
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0034-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1043870
N2  - The films of Aki and Mika Kaurismäki are part of a globalising Finnish cinema, challenging conventional parameters at every turn. This work examines the films that the Kaurismäkis produced, individually and in collaboration, between 1981 and 1995 – films which mobilise various methods to reflect, criticise, counteract and contribute to the globalisation of Finnish society in the era of late capitalist development. This work provides an in-depth analysis of these films, exploring the aesthetic and narrative content of the films as well as their production and reception in Finland. The theoretical scope of the work situates the films not only in the field of transnational cinema, but also that of ‘post-national’ cinema. Exploring the Kaurismäkis’ films in a post-national framework points to new, emergent understandings of both the fragility and the persistence of national culture and identity in a globalising world.
KW  - Globalisation, Post-national cinema, Theories of cinema, National Cinema
LA  - English
ER  -