Header_image

The Arts
To order any book,  download and
 fill in the bookstore order form
Get Order Form 
Go to the following links to browse through
the RAIVAAJA Bookstore for more of the best in:


Finnish Literature

Finnish-American
Literature

Finland-US Relations

Finland and Finnish History

Finnish American History

Humor

Cooking/Cookbooks
The Arts

Biographies

Language Aids

Local/Regional History

The Soviet Union Experience

Memoirs

Sauna

Folklore

CD's and Tapes

Children's Books

DVD's &  Videos

Frostbite

Photographs by  Arno Rafael Minkkinen

An autographed & out of print edition
A limited number available


Frostbite

Softcover, 60pages
$75.00



Kirsti Johanna Virtanen

Experiencing Contemporary Art

By John 0. Virtanen
Softcover, 160 pages, photos
$ 10.00


Mementos of Finland

A Musical Legacy
Finnish immigration kantele players
By Joyce E. Hakala
Soft cover, 437 pages, photos
$ 28.00

Songs Finland Sings

Songs Finland Sings

edited by Barbara Helsingius
Softcover, 121 pages
$19.95





In Search of Kaurismaki

In Search of Aki Kaurismäki:

 Aesthetics and Contexts


Andrew Nestingen (ed.)



Who is Aki Kaurismäki? What explains his successes? What are his cinematic aesthetics? What are Aki Kaurismäki's relevant contexts in cinema scholarship and in film history? The five articles in this volume offer the beginnings of answers to these questions much more than ever before in English.

With idiosyncratic, influential, and award-winning films such as Ariel, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, The Match-Factory Girl, Drifting Clouds, and Man Without a Past, Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s cinema has enjoyed critical success and international popularity. Showing the richness of alternatives to contemporary Hollywood, Kaurismäki’s terse cinematic language is embedded in film history and Finnish culture, while also concerned with social change in times of globalization. His films are provocative, humorous, and intellectually rewarding. This special issue of the Journal of Finnish Studies is devoted to exploring the aesthetics of Aki Kaurismäki’s cinema, and to putting his films into cinematic, national, and cultural-political context. It includes essays by Satu Kyösola, Pietari Kääpä, Andrew Nestingen, Sakari Toiviainen, and Jochen Werner:

Andrew Nestingen: “In Search of Aki Kaurismäki”

Sakari Toiviainen: “The Kaurismäki Phenomenon”

Satu Kyösola: “The Archivist’s Nostalgia”

Jochen Werner: “Talking Without Words: Aki Kaurismäki’s Rediscovery of the Virtues of Cinema”

Pietari Kääpä: “‘The Working Class Has No Fatherland’: Aki Kaurismäki’s Films and the Transcending of National Specificity”

    Andrew Nestingen: “Leaving Home: Global   Circulation and Aki Kaurismäki’s Ariel”


                                                                                                          
Andrew Nestingen is assistant professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Washington. He is co-editor with Trevor Elkington of Transnational Cinema in a Global North: Nordic Cinema in Transition.


ISBN: 0-9737165-0-9
Softcover,  119 pages         $15.00 




To order any book,  download and
 fill in the bookstore order form
Get Order Form


Return to Raivaaja Bookstore

updated 03.2011


Valid checked