Overview

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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""This fascinating book makes a crucial contribution to anglophone scholarship on Finnish cinema, and resonates as a rich case study in the cinema of small nations. Examining how majors, minors and independents operated and competed in the Finnish 'Studio System', Kimmo Laine explores the particularities of mid-20th-century Finnish film culture, stars, audiences, and genres."" -C. Claire Thomson, University College London

"""This fascinating book makes a crucial contribution to anglophone scholarship on Finnish cinema, and resonates as a rich case study in the cinema of small nations. Examining how majors, minors and independents operated and competed in the Finnish 'Studio System', Kimmo Laine explores the particularities of mid-20th-century Finnish film culture, stars, audiences, and genres."" -C. Claire Thomson, University College London"

This fascinating book makes a crucial contribution to anglophone scholarship on Finnish cinema, and resonates as a rich case study in the cinema of small nations. Examining how majors, minors and independents operated and competed in the Finnish ‘Studio System’, Kimmo Laine explores the particularities of mid-20th-century Finnish film culture, stars, audiences, and genres. -- C. Claire Thomson, University College London From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Finnish film production was dominated by a studio system not unlike Hollywood. Kimmo Laine's rich and illuminating study of the ""Finnish Hollywood"" presents the complex politics and contexts of industrial film production in a small nation in a brilliant way. -- Gunnar Iversen, Carleton University

Author Information

Kimmo 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).

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