Refocus: the Films of Teuvo Tulio: An Excessive Outsider

ISBN-13: 9781474442183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str.

Henry Bacon;Kimmo Laine;Jaakko Seppala

Opis

Teuvo Tulio (1912 2000) was one of the most obsessive directors in film history. As an independent producer and an increasingly reclusive personality, he developed his own, excessive brand of melodrama, haunted by irresistible temptations, obsessive desires, mad jealousies and toxic moralism. Combining cultural and historical contextualisation with formalist analysis, ReFocus: The Films of Teuvo Tulio is the first English-language study on this innovative director. Three internationally recognised scholars analyse the strange trajectory of his career through its impressive beginning within the Finnish studio system to becoming an outsider, an independent producer-director who could single-mindedly pursue his own, highly idiosyncratic line.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Tulio and traditions of melodrama

3. Biography of an Outsider

4. Outsider as an independent filmmaker

5. All that melodrama allows –Tulio’s films and their principal themes

6. Exploring a style of passion

7. Art of repetition

8. Tulio’s legacy

Filmography

Bibliography

Index