アキ・カウリスマキの映画 The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki : Contrarian Stories (Directors' Cuts)

Nestingen, Andrew

Wallflower Press（2013/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 224 p.／サイズ 24 b/w illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780231165587
• DDC分類 791.430233092

基本説明

Drawing on revisionist approaches to film authorship, this text links Kaurismäki's work to issues in film aesthetics and history, nostalgia, late modernity, commerce, film festivals, and national cinema.

Full Description

Aki Kaurismaki is an enigma, an eminent auteur who claims his films are a joke. Since 1983, Kaurismaki has produced classically-styled films filled with cinephilic references to film history. He has earned an international art-house audience and many prizes, influencing such directors as Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, and Wes Anderson. Yet Kaurismaki is often depicted as the loneliest, most nostalgic of Finns (except when he promotes his films, makes political statements, and runs his many businesses). He is also depicted as a bohemian known for outlandish actions and statements. The Cinema of Aki Kaurismaki is the first comprehensive English-language study of this eccentric director. Drawing on revisionist approaches to film authorship, the text links the filmmaker and his films to the stories and issues animating film aesthetics and history, nostalgia, late modernity, politics, commerce, film festivals, and national cinema.

Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Auteur 2. The Bohemian 3. The Nostalgic 4. The Finn Appendix: A Conversation with Aki Kaurismaki Filmography Bibliography Index