National and Beyond

The Author: Pietari Kääpä is based at the Institute of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo in China. His research explores transnational connections in the fields of Finnish cinema, European cinema and the global marketplace.

• Contents: The cultural context of the Kaurismäkis: Finnish films for Finnish people? – Displaced souls lost in Finland: the Kaurismäkis’ films as the cinema of the marginalised – Between convergence and divergence: the transvergent cinemas of Aki and Mika Kaurismäki – Socio-economic exclusion and the fragmented individual: Aki Kaurismäki’s ‘proletarian-trilogy’ and Hamlet Liikemaailmassa – Mika Kaurismäki’s ‘life-politics trilogy’: post-nationalism between the welfare-state and global capitalism – The search for post-national stability: Mika Kaurismäki’s international films, 1987-1990 – The problems of post-national integration: Aki Kaurismäki’s international films, 1989-1992 – A return to home? Aki Kaurismäki’s Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses, Total Balalaika Show and Pidä Huivistasi Kiinni Tatjana – A farewell to Finland: Mika Kaurismäki’s The Last Border and Tigrero.