The Films of Aki Kaurismäki: Ludic Engagements

Despite creating an extensive and innovative body of work over the last 30 years, Aki Kaurism ki remains relatively neglected in Anglophone scholarship. This international collection of original essays aims to redress such neglect by assembling diverse critical inquiries into Kaurism ki's oeuvre. The first anthology on Kaurism ki to be published in English, it offers a range of voices responding to his politically and aesthetically compelling cinema. Deploying various methodologies to explore multiple facets of his work, The Films of Aki Kaurism ki will come to be seen as the definitive book on Kaurism ki.

Author: Thomas Austin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 03/19/2020
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781501363160
ISBN10: 1501363166
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | Direction & Production
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism

About the Author
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).