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The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia

Door Ben McCann e.a.

Categorie
Film, Cinema & TV
Boeknummer
#339599-XF17
Titel
The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia
Auteur
McCann, Ben & David Sorfa
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Lodnon/New York : Wallflower Press
Jaar van uitgave
2011
ISBN10
1906660298
ISBN13
9781906660291
Taal
Nederlands, Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, some b/w illusrations, 8vo. Directors' Cuts Series.
Samenvatting
Michael Haneke is one of the most important directors working in Europe today, with films such as Funny Games (1997), Code Unknown (2000), and Hidden (2005) interrogating modern ethical dilemmas with forensic clarity and merciless insight. Haneke's films frequently implicate both the protagonists and the audience in the making of their misfortunes, yet even in the barren nihilism of The Seventh Continent (1989) and Time of the Wolf (2003) a dark strain of optimism emerges, releasing each from its terrible and inescapable guilt. It is this contingent and unlikely possibility that we find in Haneke's cinema: a utopian Europe. This collection celebrates, explicates, and sometimes challenges the worldview of Haneke's films. It examines the director's central themes and preoccupations? bourgeoi... (Lees verder)s alienation, modes and critiques of spectatorship, the role of the media? and analyzes otherwise marginalized aspects of his work, such as the function of performance and stardom, early Austrian television productions, the romanticism of The Piano Teacher (2001), and the 2007 shot-for-shot remake of Funny Games.
Pagina's
290
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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