Elsie Walker

Hearing Haneke

The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur

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Produktbeschreibung

Hearing Haneke: The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur is the first book devoted to the sound tracks of Michael Haneke. Despite his notorious preoccupation with violence, this book shows how Haneke uses sound to reawaken our capacity for hearing the world with greater compassionate understanding.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780190495916
• ISBN-10: 019049591X
• Artikelnr.: 48686859

Autorenporträt

Elsie Walker is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Salisbury University and author of Understanding Sound Tracks through Film Theory (OUP, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

* Prelude: Why does hearing Haneke's films matter?
* 1. Introduction: Hearing Haneke through the critical ruckus
* 2. The Seventh Continent: the noises of consumerism, the music of
something more
* 3. Funny Games: amplifying violence, the violators, and the victims
* 4. Code Unknown: sonically representing social divisions, diversity,
and hope
* 5. The Piano Teacher: musical beauty without transcendence
* 6. Caché: the postcolonial resonance of silences and saying "nothing"
* 7. The White Ribbon: hearing Symbolic oppression and the Real in
rebellion
* 8. Amour: the screams of life answered with love
* Works Cited
* Index