ReFocus: The Films of Teuvo Tulio

Professor Henry Bacon is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Helsinki Kimmo Laine is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Turku. He is the co-author (with Henry Bacon and Jaakko Seppälä) of ReFocus: The Films of Teuvo Tulio (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Dr Jaakko Seppälä is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Helsinki.

• 1. Introduction 2. Tulio and traditions of melodrama 3. Biography of an Outsider4. Outsider as an independent filmmaker 5. All that melodrama allows –Tulio’s films and their principal themes 6. Exploring a style of passion 7. Art of repetition 8. Tulio’s legacy Filmography Bibliography Index

The great unknown Teuvo Tulio was the most melodramatic of all melodramatic directors. Next to him even the masters of the genre, including Douglas Sirk, look like social realists.