A Companion to Michael Haneke

by Grundmann, Roy

• ISBN13: 9781405188005
• ISBN10: 1405188006
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Michael Haneke is a definitive collection of newly-commissioned work that covers Haneke's body of work in its entirety, catering to students and scholars of Haneke at a time when interest in the director and his work is soaring. Introduces one of the most important directors to have emerged on the global cinema scene in the past fifteen years Caters to students and scholars of Haneke at a time when interest in the director and his work is soaring Includes exclusive interviews with Michael Haneke, including an interview discussion of his most recent film, White Ribbon Considers themes, topics, and subjects that have formed the nucleus of the director's life's work: the fate of European cinema, Haneke in Hollywood, pornography, alienation, citizenship, colonialism, and the gaze of surveillance Features critical examinations of La Pianiste, Time of the Wolf, Three Paths to the Lake and Cach_, amongst others

Author Biography

Roy Grundmann is Associate Professor of Film Studies, and Film Studies Program Director in the Department of Film and Television, Boston University. He is co-editor of the multi-volume Blackwell History of American Film.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Critical and Topical Approaches to Haneke's Cinema

Performative Self-Contradictions Michael Haneke's Mind Games

Five Tapes, Four Halls, Two Dreams Vicissitudes of Surveillant Narration in Michael Haneke's aché

Infectious Images Haneke, Cameron, Egoyan and the Dueling Epistemologies of Video and Film

Tracking Code inconnu

Michael Haneke and the New Subjectivity Architecture and Film

Games Haneke Plays Reality and Performance

Figures of Disgust

Without Music On Caché

Fighting the Melodramatic Condition Haneke's Polemics

Mourning for the Gods who Have Died The Role of Religion in Michael Haneke's "Glaciation" Trilogy

The Television Films

A Melancholy Labor of Love, or Film Adaptation as Translation Three Paths to the Lake, 1976

Michael Haneke and the Television Years A Reading of Lemmings

Variations on Themes Spheres and Space in Haneke's Variation

Projecting Desire, Rewriting Cinematic Memory Gender and German Reconstruction in Michael aneke's

(Don't) Look Now Hallucinatory Art History in Who was Edgar Allan?

Bureaucracy and Visual Style

The German-language Theatrical Features

Structures of Glaciation Gaze, Perspective, and Gestus in the Films of Michael Haneke

The Void at the Center of Things Figures of Identity in Michael Haneke's "Glaciation" Trilogy

How to Do Things with Violences

Between Adorno and Lyotard Haneke's Aesthetic of Fragmentation

Hollywood End-games

The French-Language Theatrical Features

Class Conflict and Urban Public Space Haneke and Mass Transit

Multicultural Encounters in Haneke's French-Language Cinema

Haneke's Secession Perspectivism and Anti-Nihilism in Code Unknown and Caché

The Unknown Piano Teacher

Discordant Desires, Violent Refrains The Piano Teacher

Civilization's Endless Shadow Haneke's Time of the Wolf

The Intertextual and Discursive Origins of Terror in Michael Haneke's Caché

Michael Haneke Speaks

Terror and Utopia of Form Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar

Violence and the Media

The World That is Known An Interview with Michael Haneke

Unsentimental Education: An Interview with Michael Haneke

Filmography

Index

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