Aki Kaurismäki is an enigma, an eminent auteur who claims his films are a joke. Since 1983, Kaurismäki has produced classically-styled films filled with cinep

Despite creating an extensive and innovative body of work over the last 30 years, Aki Kaurismäki remains relatively neglected in Anglophone scholarship. This i

Scandinavian popular novels and films have flourished in the last thirty years. In Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia, Andrew Nestingen argues that the growth and

Although a long-established and influential genre, this is the first comprehensive study of the European road cinema. Crossing New Europe investigates this trad

Volume of essays examining the transition from national Nordic cinemas to transnational and global Nordic cinema.