A Companion to Michael Haneke (eBook)

Roy Grundmann (Herausgeber)

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2010 | 1. Auflage
656 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781444320619 (ISBN)

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A Companion to Michael Haneke

With a new preface addressing the Academy award-winning film, Amour, this new-in-paper edition has established itself as the definitive collection on Michael Haneke--from his early work in television and theater, through his prodigious cinematic output, to his 2009 triumph at Cannes.

A Companion to Michael Haneke brings together essays by leading film scholars, as well as interviews with the director himself, to probe the provocative and controversial themes that have formed the nucleus of Haneke's work--intergenerational dysfunction and social alienation, colonialism and citizenship, surveillance and pornography, mass culture and media violence. The volume also offers a critical examination of the auteur's oeuvre, including Three Paths to the Lake, Lemmings, Benny's Video, The Piano Teacher, Caché, Funny Games, and the 2009 Palme d'Or winner, The White Ribbon.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xiv

Introduction: Haneke's Anachronism 1
Roy Grundmann

Part I Critical and Topical Approaches to Haneke's Cinema51

1 Performative Self-Contradictions: Michael Haneke's Mind Games53
Thomas Elsaesser

2 Five Tapes, Four Halls, Two Dreams: Vicissitudes ofSurveillant Narration in Michael Haneke's Caché75
Thomas Y. Levin

3 Infectious Images: Haneke, Cameron, Egoyan, and the DuelingEpistemologies of Video and Film 91
Vinzenz Hediger

4 Tracking Code Unknown 113
Tom Conley

5 Michael Haneke and the New Subjectivity: Architecture and Film124
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 Polemics168
Jörg Metelmann

10 "Mourning for the Gods Who Have Died": The Role of Religionin Michael Haneke's Glaciation Trilogy 187
Gregor Thuswaldner

Part II The Television Films 203

11 A Melancholy Labor of Love, or Film Adaptation asTranslation: Three Paths to the Lake 205
Fatima Naqvi

12 Michael Haneke and the Television Years: A Reading ofLemmings 227
Peter Brunette

13 Variations on Themes: Spheres and Space in Haneke'sVariation 243
Monica Filimon and Fatima Naqvi

14 Projecting Desire, Rewriting Cinematic Memory: Gender andGerman Reconstruction in Michael Haneke's Fraulein 263
Tobias Nagl

15 (Don't) Look Now: Hallucinatory Art History in Who WasEdgar 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, andGestus in the Films of Michael Haneke 323
Georg Seeßlen

18 The Void at the Center of Things: Figures of Identity inMichael 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 ofFragmentation 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 MassTransit 441
Barton Byg

23 Multicultural Encounters in Haneke's French-Language Cinema455
Alex Lykidis

24 Haneke's Secession: Perspectivism and Anti-Nihilism inCode Unknown and Caché 477
Kevin L. Stoehr

25 The Unknown Piano Teacher 495
Charles Warren

26 Discordant Desires, Violent Refrains: La Pianiste (ThePiano Teacher) 511
Jean Ma

27 Civilization's Endless Shadow: Haneke's Time of theWolf 532
Evan Torner

28 The Intertextual and Discursive Origins of Terror in MichaelHaneke's Caché 551
T. Jefferson Kline

Part V Michael Haneke Speaks 563

29 Terror and Utopia of Form: Robert Bresson's Au hasardBalthazar 565
Michael Haneke

30 Violence and the Media 575
Michael Haneke

31 The World That Is Known: An Interview with Michael Haneke580
Christopher Sharrett

32 Unsentimental Education: An Interview with Michael Haneke591
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

"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

"Vacant since the deaths of Fassbinder, Truffaut,
Tarkovsky and Bergman, the throne of European cinema is now claimed
by Michael Haneke. A seasoned festival favourite, this master of
transnational filmmaking would not stop astounding audiences with
his thought-provoking close-ups of families, nations, and hushed
histories. Roy Grundmann masterfully orchestrates this truly
diverse assembly of insightful and up-to-date scholarship on
Haneke. The volume not only brings together more than thirty
scholars based in the US, Canada, France, Germany, Austria, and
elsewhere, but also unites generations, from senior scholars to PhD
students, for a uniquely interdisciplinary project." -
Dina Iordanova, University of St Andrews

"Forcefully tackling Haneke's moral and
philosophical games, stylistic rigor, and critical success, the
scholars of this volume shed definitive light on the art, film, and
television works of Europe's most fashionably retró
director. This is post-auteurism at its best." -
Giorgio Bertellini, University of Michigan

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.2.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Cultural Studies • Film • Filmforschung • Film Studies • Geschichte des Filmtheaters • History of Cinema • Kulturwissenschaften • Medienkritik
• ISBN-13: 9781444320619 / 9781444320619