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The Cinema of Mika KaurismäkiTransvergent Cinescapes, Emergent Identities

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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' – 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. A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform: The Cinema of Mika Kaurismaki [http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=650068;keyword=the%20cinema%20of%20mika%20kaurismaki]. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public Licence and is part of Knowledge Unlatched.

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1 online resource (210 pages)

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English

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9781841504520

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