ReFocus: The Films of Teuvo Tulio: An Excessive Outsider

Henry Bacon; Kimmo Laine; Jaakko Seppälä

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

ReFocus

The Films of Teuvo Tulio: An Excessive Outsider

Henry Bacon , Kimmo Laine and Jaakko Seppälä

In the series ReFocus: The International Directors Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474442169

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Examines the work of Finnish director Teuvo Tulio who created his own aesthetics of melodramatic excess

Offers the first English language study of this exceptional filmmaker
Systematically explores both the stylistic features and the attitudes toward sexuality of an extreme form of film melodrama
Analyses the options a highly individualistic filmmaker had in coping with the studio system and trying to survive as an independent producer-director
Examines the strange career of an increasingly reclusive artist working within the most public of art forms

Teuvo Tulio (1912–2000) was one of the most obsessive directors in film history. As an independent producer and an increasingly reclusive personality he developed his own, excessive brand of melodrama, haunted by irresistible temptations, obsessive desires, mad jealousies and toxic moralism. All this has now been thoroughly explored by means of combining cultural and historical contextualisation with formalist analysis.

ReFocus: The Films of Teuvo Tulio: An Excessive Outsider is the first English-language study on this innovative director. Three internationally recognized scholars analyse the strange trajectory of his career through its impressive beginning within the Finnish studio system to becoming an outsider, an independent producer-director who could single-mindedly pursue his own, highly idiosyncratic line.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
The Authors Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Tulio and Traditions of Melodrama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3 Biography of an Outsider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
4 Outsider as an Independent Filmmaker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
5 All that Melodrama Allows – Tulio’s Films and Principal Obsessions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
6 Exploring a Style of Passion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
7 Art of Repetition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
8 Tulio’s Legacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Filmography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Illustrations
- Other: 130 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474442169