Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki s films challenge the boundaries of nations, genre formations, art and popular culture, and fiction and documentary. Synthesizing concepts from a range of thematic frameworks, including transnationalism, eco-philosophy, architectural theory, and cartography, this book provides an interdisciplinary reading of Kaurismaki s body of work. 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...
Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki s films challenge the boundaries of nations, genre formations, art and popular culture, and fiction and documentar...
An important addition to Intellect s popular series, "Directory of World Cinema: Finland" provides historical and cultural overviews of the country s cinema. Over the course of their contributions to this volume, scholars from a variety of disciplines construct a collective argument that complicates the dominant international view of Finnish cinema as small-scale industry dominated by realist art-house films.The contributors approach the topic from a variety of angles, covering genre, art, and commercial films; independent productions; blockbuster cinema; and Finnish cinema s industrial...
An important addition to Intellect s popular series, "Directory of World Cinema: Finland" provides historical and cultural overviews of the country...
Part of Intellect s World Film Locations series, "World Film Locations: Helsinki "explores the relationship between the city, cinema, and Finnish cultural history. Cinematic representations of Helsinki range from depictions of a northern periphery to a space of cosmopolitanism, from a touristic destination to a substitute for Moscow and St. Petersburg during the Cold War. The city also looks different depending on one s perspective, and "World Film Locations: Helsinki" illustrates this complexity by providing a visual collection of cinematic views of Helsinki. This cinematic city is a...
Part of Intellect s World Film Locations series, "World Film Locations: Helsinki "explores the relationship between the city, cinema, and Finnish cult...
Discussion of Hollywood film has dominated much of the contemporary dialogue on ecocriticism and the cinema until now. With "Transnational Ecocinemas," the editors open up the critical debate to look at a larger variety of films from many different countries and cultures. By foregrounding these films with their economic and political contexts, the contributors offer a more comprehensive and nuanced look at the role of place in ecocinema. The essays also interrogate proposed global solutions to environmental issues by presenting an ecocritical perspective on different film cultural...
Discussion of Hollywood film has dominated much of the contemporary dialogue on ecocriticism and the cinema until now. With "Transnational Ecocinemas,...
Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas challenges the traditional socio-political rhetoric of national cinema by providing an ecocritical examination of Nordic cinema. The author uses a range of analytical approaches to interrogate how the national paradigm can be rethought through ecosystemic concerns, by exploring a range of Nordic films as national and transnational, regional and local texts, all with significant global implications. By synergizing transnational theories with ecological approaches, the study considers the planetary implications of nation-based cultural...
Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas challenges the traditional socio-political rhetoric of national cinema by providing an ecocritical e...
In recent years the widely held misconception of the media as an 'ephemeral' industry has been challenged by research on the industry's significant material footprint. Despite this material turn, no systematic study of this sector has been conducted in ways that considers the role of the media industries as consumers and utilizers of a range of natural resources.
Filling this lacuna, this book discusses the environmental management of the Nordic media industries. These countries, both as a set of small nations and as a regional constellation, are frequently perceived as some of the...
In recent years the widely held misconception of the media as an 'ephemeral' industry has been challenged by research on the industry's significant...