Aki Kaurism-ki is an enigma, an eminent auteur who claims his films are a joke. Since 1983, Kaurism-ki has produced classically-styled films filled with cinephilic references to film history. He has
Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia provides significant insight into the changing nature of civil society under the Scandinavian welfare state through the lens of popular culture. Nestingen argues that
Aki Kaurism-ki is an enigma, an eminent auteur who claims his films are a joke. Since 1983, Kaurism-ki has produced classically-styled films filled with cinephilic references to film history. He has
Stieg Larsson’s darkly violent but irresistibly absorbing and wildly popular crime novels have brought new attention to the work of Nordic crime writers, and Scandinavian Crime Fiction is the first En
Scholarly writing on Nordic cinema has historically focused on such auteurs as Carl Dreyer and Ingmar Bergman. Recent work has neglected to contextualize contemporary Nordic film within the increasing
