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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. Combining cultural and
historical contextualisation with formalist analysis, ReFocus: The
Films of Teuvo Tulio is the first English-language study on this
innovative director. Three internationally recognised 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.
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.
Finnish Film Studios provides a thorough examination of Finnish
film industry through the core decades of the studio era, from the
early 1920s to the early 1960s. Laine analyses the contributions of
fully integrated major companies, Suomi-Filmi, Suomen
Filmiteollisuus and Fennada-Filmi, in addition to minor companies
and independent producers that were responsible for some of the
canonized work of the studio era, including the films of Teuvo
Tulio and Nyrki Tapiovaara. This study approaches Finnish studio
cinema as both typical and particular: it is a typical European
small nation cinema with its industrial structures, reliance on
hierarchical organisation of labour and love-hate relationship with
Hollywood; yet, it is particular, not only in its genres, cycles
and hugely popular domestic stars, but also because films were made
in the constant presence of geopolitical realities, at times under
the influence of Germany and the Soviet Union.
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