A Companion to Michael Haneke

Herausgegeben von Grundmann, Roy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now available at a special price, this is the definitive collection of essays exploring Haneke's work in its entirety--from his early work, prodigious cinematic output, through to his 2009 triumph at Cannes. The Companion brings together essays by some of the foremost scholars in film studies, as well as exclusive interviews with the director himself. Considering the themes central to Haneke's work--pornography, alienation, citizenship, colonialism, the fate of European cinema, Hollywood, and the gaze of surveillance, the Companion showcases this enigmatic and complicated director with unprecedented depth and breadth.

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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

Produktdetails

• Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 991g
• ISBN-13: 9781118723487
• ISBN-10: 1118723481
• Artikelnr.: 39712061

Autorenporträt

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 four-volume Blackwell History of American Film.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction: Haneke's
Anachronism 1 Roy Grundmann Part I Critical and Topical Approaches to
Haneke's Cinema 51 1 Performative Self-Contradictions: Michael Haneke's
Mind Games 53 Thomas Elsaesser 2 Five Tapes, Four Halls, Two Dreams:
Vicissitudes of Surveillant Narration in Michael Haneke's Caché 75 Thomas
Y. Levin 3 Infectious Images: Haneke, Cameron, Egoyan, and the Dueling
Epistemologies of Video and Film 91 Vinzenz Hediger 4 Tracking Code Unknown
113 Tom Conley 5 Michael Haneke and the New Subjectivity: Architecture and
Film 124 Peter Eisenman 6 Games Haneke Plays: Reality and Performance 130
Brigitte Peucker 7 Figures of Disgust 147 Christa Blümlinger 8 Without
Music: On Caché 161 Michel Chion 9 Fighting the Melodramatic Condition:
Haneke's Polemics 168 Jörg Metelmann 10 "Mourning for the Gods Who Have
Died": The Role of Religion in Michael Haneke's Glaciation Trilogy 187
Gregor Thuswaldner Part II The Television Films 203 11 A Melancholy Labor
of Love, or Film Adaptation as Translation: Three Paths to the Lake 205
Fatima Naqvi 12 Michael Haneke and the Television Years: A Reading of
Lemmings 227 Peter Brunette 13 Variations on Themes: Spheres and Space in
Haneke's Variation 243 Monica Filimon and Fatima Naqvi 14 Projecting
Desire, Rewriting Cinematic Memory: Gender and German Reconstruction in
Michael Haneke's Fraulein 263 Tobias Nagl 15 (Don't) Look Now:
Hallucinatory Art History in Who Was Edgar Allan? 279 Janelle Blankenship
16 Bureaucracy and Visual Style 301 Brian Price Part III The
German-Language Theatrical Features 321 17 Structures of Glaciation: Gaze,
Perspective, and Gestus in the Films of Michael Haneke 323 Georg Seeßlen 18
The Void at the Center of Things: Figures of Identity in Michael Haneke's
Glaciation Trilogy 337 Peter J. Schwartz 19 How to Do Things with Violences
354 Eugenie Brinkema 20 Between Adorno and Lyotard: Michael Haneke's
Aesthetic of Fragmentation 371 Roy Grundmann 21 Hollywood Endgames 420
Leland Monk Part IV The French-Language Theatrical Features 439 22 Class
Conflict and Urban Public Space: Haneke and Mass Transit 441 Barton Byg 23
Multicultural Encounters in Haneke's French-Language Cinema 455 Alex
Lykidis 24 Haneke's Secession: Perspectivism and Anti-Nihilism in Code
Unknown and Caché 477 Kevin L. Stoehr 25 The Unknown Piano Teacher 495
Charles Warren 26 Discordant Desires, Violent Refrains: La Pianiste (The
Piano Teacher) 511 Jean Ma 27 Civilization's Endless Shadow: Haneke's Time
of the Wolf 532 Evan Torner 28 The Intertextual and Discursive Origins of
Terror in Michael Haneke's Caché 551 T. Jefferson Kline Part V Michael
Haneke Speaks 563 29 Terror and Utopia of Form: Robert Bresson's Au hasard
Balthazar 565 Michael Haneke 30 Violence and the Media 575 Michael Haneke
31 The World That Is Known: An Interview with Michael Haneke 580
Christopher Sharrett 32 Unsentimental Education: An Interview with Michael
Haneke 591 Roy Grundmann Filmography 607 Index 619

Rezensionen

"The largest body of critical, theoretical, and historical work on Haneke so far assembled in one volume. The book's thirty-two essays have been judiciously chosen and edited by Roy Grundmann, a first-rate scholar of against-the-grain cinema." - Film Quarterly