The Films of Aki Kaurismäki

Thomas Austin is Reader in Media & Film at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Hollywood, Hype and Audiences: Selling and Watching Popular Film in the 1990s (2002) and Watching the World: Screen Documentary and Audiences (2007); and co-editor of Contemporary Hollywood Stardom (2003) and Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives, New Practices (2008).

List of Contributors
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Thomas Austin

Part 1: Time and Space
Chapter 1: Temporality in Kaurismäki: Anachronism, Allusion, Tableau
Thomas Austin
Chapter 2: Three Ecologies of Kaurismäki
Pietari Kääpä
Chapter 3: Beyond the Edges of the Frame: The Invisible in Aki Kaurismäki’s Films
Lara Perski
Chapter 4: Kaurismäki and Japan
Eija Niskanen

Part 2: Tone and Point of View
Chapter 5: The Camera’s Ironic Point of View: Notes on Strange and Comic Elements in the Films of Aki Kaurismäki
Jaakko Seppälä
Chapter 6: Dreamers and Other Sentimental Fools: Money, Solidarity and Ambivalent Populism in the Films of Aki Kaurismäki
Panos Kompatsiaris
Chapter 7: The Cultural Techniques of Gesture in Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletarian Trilogy
Angelos Koutsourakis
Chapter 8: Kaurismäki’s Musical Moments: Genre, Irony, Utopia, Redemption
Andrew Nestingen

Part 3: Performance
Chapter 9: Levels of typification in Aki Kaurismäki’s Drifting Clouds
Henry Bacon
Chapter 10: Masquerading, Underacting, and Screen Performances in Hamlet Goes Business
Ulrike Hanstein
Chapter 11: Deadpan Dogs: Kaurismäki’s Canine Comedies
Michael Lawrence

Filmography
Bibliography
Index