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A Companion to Michael Haneke

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Roy Grundmann
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John Wiley & Sons, Feb 4, 2010 - Performing Arts - 656 pages
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
  • Includes exclusive interviews with Michael Haneke, including an interview discussion of The 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 Caché, amongst others
  

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Contents

Performative SelfContradictions Michael Hanekes Mind Games
53
Five Tapes Four Halls Two Dreams Vicissitudes of Surveillant Narration in Michael Hanekes Caché
75
Infectious Images Haneke Cameron Egoyan and the Dueling Epistemologies of Video and Film
91
Tracking Code Unknown
113
Michael Haneke and the New Subjectivity Architecture and Film
124
Games Haneke Plays Reality and Performance
130
Figures of Disgust
147
Without Music On Caché
161
How to Do Things with Violences
354
Between Adorno and Lyotard Michael Hanekes Aesthetic of Fragmentation
371
Hollywood Endgames
420
The FrenchLanguage Theatrical Features
439
Class Conflict and Urban Public Space Haneke and Mass Transit
441
Multicultural Encounters in Hanekes FrenchLanguage Cinema
455
Hanekes Secession Perspectivism and AntiNihilism in Code Unknown and Caché
477
The Unknown Piano Teacher
495

Fighting the Melodramatic Condition Hanekes Polemics
168
Mourning for the Gods Who Have Died The Role of Religion in Michael Hanekes Glaciation Trilogy
187
The Television Films
203
A Melancholy Labor of Love or Film Adaptation as Translation Three Paths to the Lake
205
Michael Haneke and the Television Years A Reading of Lemmings
227
Variations on Themes Spheres and Space in Hanekes Variation
243
Projecting Desire Rewriting Cinematic Memory Gender and German Reconstruction in Michael Hanekes Fraulein
263
Dont Look Now Hallucinatory Art History in Who Was Edgar Allan?
279
Bureaucracy and Visual Style
301
The GermanLanguage Theatrical Features
321
Structures of Glaciation Gaze Perspective and Gestus in the Films of Michael Haneke
323
The Void at the Center of Things Figures of Identity in Michael Hanekes Glaciation Trilogy
337
Discordant Desires Violent Refrains La Pianiste The Piano Teacher
511
Civilizations Endless Shadow Hanekes Time of the Wolf
532
The Intertextual and Discursive Origins of Terror in Michael Hanekes Caché
551
Michael Haneke Speaks
563
Terror and Utopia of Form Robert Bressons Au hasard Balthazar
565
Violence and the Media
575
The World That Is Known An Interview with Michael Haneke
580
Unsentimental Education An Interview with Michael Haneke
591
Filmography
607
Index
619
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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.

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