Description
Book SynopsisAn 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 and historical contexts. While paying heed to Finland’s cultural specificity, the contributors also explore Finnish cultural industries within the broader context of international political, economic, artistic and industrial developments. Together, they skilfully depict an ever-changing national film culture that plays a dynamic role in the global cinematic landscape. Directory of World Cinema: Finland will therefore expand not only global interest in Finnish cinema but also the parameters within which it is discussed.
Table of ContentsIntroduction by the Editor
Film of the Year: Rare Exports
Directors
Aki Kaurismäki
Erkki Karu
Matti Kassila
Mikko Niskanen
Pirjo Honkasalo
Rauni Mollberg
Risto Jarva
T.J. Särkkä
Teuvo Tulio
Valentin Vaala
Stars
The Emergence of the Star System
Kati Outinen
Matti Pellonpää
Tauno Palo
Vesa-Matti Loiri
Industrial Spotlight: The Economics of Finnish Cinema Part 1: 1910–1935
Scoring Cinema
Silent Cinema
War
Contemporary Film and Literature
Social Realism
Genre
Comedy
Children’s Film
Documentary
Cinema and the Environment
Global Finland
The Futures of Finnish Cinema
