![]() The Elephant Man: Nostalgia, Cultural Intimacy and The Man Without A Past The Man Without A Past and the nostalgic market The development of nostalgia Nostalgia in cinema The national parameters of The Man Without A Past Traces of postwar recovery The financial crisis continued Moral choices and nostalgia in Kaurismäki s cinema Our latest export: cultural intimacy and The Man Without A Past Chapter Five. Still in the Shadows: Intertextual loss, the European moment and Drifting Clouds Uses of intertextuality Intertextuality and film Intertextuality and the auteur The Shadows of Clouds Of actors and auteursĥ Metaphor and repetition in Akilandia The legacy of the casino economy Dubrovnik, Finland and the European Union Afterlives of Clouds Chapter Four. The National Mythscape Terms and conditions The persistence of nations From national memory to mythscape Origins of Finnishness The emergence of Finnish nationalism Independence and international prestige The Second World War and postwar recovery The great migration and Kekkoslovakia Westernisation: the other side of the coin Absolution, blame and the elites Aki Kaurismäki as a member of the cultural elite The mythscape through an auteurial lens Chapter Three. The Auteur Framework Origins of the auteur director The emergence and influence of auteurism The author, pre-text and post-text The auteur reconsidered Aki Kaurismäki s cinema The (inter)national auteur The semi-, para- and extratextual auteur The Kaurismäkian auteur-persona Chapter Two. I argue that it is in its role as the interface between national culture and international audiences that Kaurismäkianness has become an important alternative narrative of Finnishness: an inspiration for cultural and marketing strategies and a catalyst for national debate.Ĥ Contents List of Figures. At the same time the films self-reflective and ritualised Kaurismäkianness, together with their international critical successes, leads to a process of national imagining that involves an awareness of international perceptions. The films retain a socially critical edge, but they reflect an increasing desire to belong, make friends and find love in a largely inhospitable city. I find that the films of the Finland trilogy reflect a broader cultural turn in Finnish society following the end of the Cold War and Finland s membership of the European Union in particular. The research is important as it develops an original approach for analysing the way in which cinematic authors can be implicated in processes of national imagining. In seeking to understand how Kaurismäki s auteurial engagement with narratives of Finnishness feeds back into Finnish society this thesis contributes to current debates about the relationship between auteurs and national identity. I combine this close analysis of the film texts with discussion of the context of the films, their media presence and afterlife, for example the discourses surrounding the films after their initial release or the ways in which their Kaurismäkianness has been appropriated by others for specifically national purposes. I provide a textual analysis of each of the focus films, paying particular attention to their national aspects and their references to Kaurismäki s other films. In order to examine the links between Finnishness and Kaurismäkianness I establish, first, the way in which Kaurismäki s films engage with national themes and, second, the way in which this Kaurismäkian take on Finnishness is received and further appropriated in Finland. The thesis addresses how Kaurismäki, whose work and public persona have tended to be critical of national institutions and preoccupations, has developed into an increasingly national figure in Finland s years of Europeanisation. 1 Our Aki The auteurial-national nexus and Aki Kaurismäki s Finland trilogy Sanna Peden Bachelor of Arts (European Studies) Honours This thesis is presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of The University of Western Australia School of Humanities European Studies 2012ģ Abstract This thesis explores the interconnections of Finnishness and Kaurismäkianness in and around Aki Kaurismäki s so-called Finland trilogy: Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without A Past (2002) and Lights in the Dusk (2006).
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