Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index.
Contents:
Also by the Authors; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Transnational Small Nation Cinema; Films as Transnational Art; Notions of Nations and National Cinemas; Finnish Cinema as a Transnational Small Nation Cinema Case Study; Theoretical and Methodological Approach; Notes; Part I: Beginnings: -1930; Chapter 2: A Young Nation Seeking to Define Itself: Finland in 1900-1930; Chapter 3: The Emergence of Finnish Film Production and Its Linkages to Cinema Businesses During the Silent Era Early Productions Within the Cinema CompaniesNationalistic Filmmaking in the Aftermath of the First World War; It All Comes Down to Distribution; Expansion Leads to Rivalry; Competition in Filmmaking; Domestic Silent Features as Part of the Finnish Film Business; Notes; Chapter 4: Finnish Film Style in the Silent Era; Supplementing Images with Words; The Persistence of Large Shot Scales; Matters of Dissection and Continuity; Creating Believable Diegetic Worlds; Notes; Part II: The Studio Era: 1930-1960; Chapter 5: War and Peace: Finland Among Contending Nations Chapter 6: Conceptions of National Film Style During the Studio EraFilm Sound; House Styles; Rhetoric of National Style; Taste; Plausibility; Tempo; Four Modes of Film Style; Notes; Chapter 7: Exporting Finnish Films; The Main Trends in Foreign Distribution; The Nordic Card; Niche Markets for Finnish-Language Films; Organizing Exports; Notes; Part III: New Waves: 1960-1980; Chapter 8: Trade and Diplomacy Between East and West; Chapter 9: The Finnish New Wave as a Transnational Phenomenon; The Finnish New Wave as a Transnational Phenomenon; International Collaborations The Style of the New WaveExcess and New Wave Film Culture; Transnational Approaches to Excess; Shattering the Frame; An Excessive Challenge to National Romanticism; Wandering Shots and Any-Spaces-Whatever; Pop Culture; Rhetorical Manifestos; Open-Ended Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 10: Popular Modernism; In-between Production; Authorship; Intermediality; Adaptation; Voiceover Narration; Films About Media; Intermedial Work Environment; Notes; Part IV: The Age of Internationalization: Finnish Cinema Since 1980; Chapter 11: An Increasingly European Nation Chapter 12: International Networks of Production and DistributionFinnish Cinema in the New Europe; European Production and Distribution Collaboration; Nordic Production Collaboration; Notes; Chapter 13: Producer-led Mode of Film Production; Marko R̈ohr: A Commercial Form of National Cinema; A New Mode of Production; International Connections; National Cinema; Notes; Chapter 14: Two Modes of Transnational Filmmaking; Klaus Ḧar̈o: Between Two Small Nation Film Cultures; Aki Kaurism̈aki's Transnational Aesthetics of Contradiction; Notes; Chapter 15: Finnish Films and International Festivals; Notes
Summary:
This book presents an expert analysis of the transnational aspects of Finnish cinema throughout its history. As a small nation cinema, Finnish film culture has, even at its most nationalistic, always been attached to developments in other film producing nations in terms of production and distribution as well as genres and aesthetics. Recent developments in film theory offer exciting new approaches and methodologies for the study of transnational phenomena in the field of film culture, both past and present. The authors employ a wide range of cutting edge methodologies in order to address the major issues involved in transnational approaches to film culture. Until recently, much of this research has focused on globalization and questions related to diasporic cinema while transnational issues related to small nation film cultures have been marginalized. This study focuses on how small nation cinemas have faced the dilemma of contributing to the construction and maintenance of national culture and identity, while responding to audience tastes largely shaped by foreign cinemas. With Finland's intriguing political placement between East and West, along with the high portion of film history preserved in Finnish archives, this thoroughly contextualized multidisciplinary analysis of Finnish film history serves as an illuminating case study of the transnational aspects of small nation cinemas.
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