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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139360503321

Titolo

A companion to Michael Haneke [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Roy Grundmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-78268-616-9

1-282-48261-0

9786612482618

1-4051-9741-2

1-4443-2060-2

1-4443-2061-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (658 p.)

Collana

Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors

Altri autori (Persone)

GrundmannRoy <1963->

Disciplina

791

791.4302/33092

791.430233092

Soggetti

Motion picture producers and directors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes filmography.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Companion to Michael Haneke; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Haneke's Anachronism; PART I Critical and Topical Approaches to Haneke's Cinema; 1 Performative Self-Contradictions: Michael Haneke's Mind Games; 2 Five Tapes, Four Halls, Two Dreams: Vicissitudes of Surveillant Narration in Michael Haneke's Cache; 3 Infectious Images: Haneke, Cameron, Egoyan, and the Dueling Epistemologies of Video and Film; 4 Tracking Code Unknown; 5 Michael Haneke and the New Subjectivity: Architecture and Film; 6 Games Haneke Plays: Reality and Performance; 7 Figures of Disgust

8 Without Music: On Cache9 Fighting the Melodramatic Condition: Haneke's Polemics; 10 ""Mourning for the Gods Who Have Died"": The Role of Religion in Michael Haneke's Glaciation Trilogy; PART II The Television Films; 11 A Melancholy Labor of Love, or Film Adaptation as Translation: Three Paths to the Lake; 12 Michael Haneke and the Television Years: A Reading of Lemmings; 13 Variations on Themes: Spheres and Space in Haneke's Variation; 14 Projecting Desire,



Rewriting Cinematic Memory: Gender and German Reconstruction in Michael Haneke's Fraulein

15 (Don't) Look Now: Hallucinatory Art History in Who Was Edgar Allan?16 Bureaucracy and Visual Style; PART III The German-Language Theatrical Features; 17 Structures of Glaciation: Gaze, Perspective, and Gestus in the Films of Michael Haneke; 18 The Void at the Centerof Things: Figures of Identity in Michael Haneke's Glaciation Trilogy; 19 How to Do Things with Violences; 20 Between Adorno and Lyotard: Michael Haneke's Aesthetic of Fragmentation; 21 Hollywood Endgames; PART IV The French-Language Theatrical Features; 22 Class Conflict and Urban Public Space: Haneke and Mass Transit

23 Multicultural Encounters in Haneke's French-Language Cinema24 Haneke's Secession: Perspectivism and Anti-Nihilism in Code Unknown and Cache; 25 The Unknown Piano Teacher; 26 Discordant Desires, Violent Refrains: La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher); 27 Civilization's Endless Shadow: Haneke's Time of the Wolf; 28 The Intertextual and Discursive Origins of Terror in Michael Haneke's Cache; PART V Michael Haneke Speaks; 29 Terror and Utopia of Form: Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar; 30 Violence and the Media; 31 The World That Is Known: An Interview with Michael Haneke

32 Unsentimental Education: An Interview with Michael HanekeFilmography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 yearsIncludes exclusive interviews with Michael Haneke, including an interview discussion of The White RibbonConsiders themes, topics, and subjects that have formed the nucleus of the director's life's work: