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The Films of Teuvo Tulio
An Excessive Outsider
by Henry Bacon, Kimmo Laine and Jaakko Seppälä
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Teuvo Tulio (1912–2000) was one of the most original directors in Finnish film history. Growing up in the newly independent Finland, he lived most of his life in the Finnish cultural and social context, yet he always remained something of an outsider and ended up as a total recluse.
This is the first English-language collection on this innovative director, exploring Tulio’s unique style and the extent, and effect of his obsessive recirculation of story elements and stylistic patterns in his work. A range of international scholars analyse how Tulio created his own brand of excessive melodrama, and follow the strange trajectory of his career from within the studio system to the outsider status of an independent producer-director.
About the authors:
Professor Henry Bacon is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of HelsinkiKimmo 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.
Press Reviews:
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. -- Aki Kaurismäki, film director
Scholars have overlooked Teuvo Tulio’s melodramas; ReFocus: The Films of Teuvo Tulio revives them in their florid glory. Tulio’s films are an important chapter in the history of melodrama. They draw on opera, stage melodrama, silent cinema, Finnish rural melodrama and classical Hollywood aesthetics, but they also explode each of these through their manic creativity, fraught oppositions and fanatical repetition […] The first book on Tulio in English, this will be valuable to film historians, scholars of melodrama and cinephiles, igniting interest in this eccentric and original filmmaker. -- Andrew Nestingen, Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Adjunct Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Washington
How wonderful to have this alluring study put the fabulous cinema of Teuvo Tulio firmly on the map of world cinema where it belongs. Lucid and vivid, and a major contribution to current debates about melodrama, the book manages to be systematic and measured about films that are wild and passionate, establishing the crazed seriousness of their engagement with the world. -- Professor Richard Dyer, King's College London
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
See the complete filmography of Teuvo Tulio on the website: IMDB ...
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