{"product_id":"a-companion-to-michael-haneke-hardback-9781405188005","title":"A Companion to Michael Haneke (Hardback) 9781405188005","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to Michael Haneke\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A Companion to Michael Haneke  \u003c\/i\u003e represents a major contribution to Haneke studies. It includes essays by leading film scholars on the German and French language films, and essays on Haneke’s newly available Television work of the seventies and eighties. Grundmann’s introductory survey (Haneke’s Anachronism”) will prove definitive in the field.\" \u003ci\u003eKirsten Thompson, Wayne State Unive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ersity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Forcefully tackling Haneke’s moral and philosophical games, stylistic rigor, and critical success, the first-rate 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.\" \u003ci\u003eGiorgio Bertellini, University of Michigan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This collection’s range of essays offers a comprehensive account of Haneke’s work in film and television, as well as a number of strikingly original critical interventions. Its coverage of Haneke’s television feature films is particularly thorough and will initiate many Anglo-American readers into this body of work. Haneke is surely one of the most important contemporary artists working in any medium. This book is both a testimony to and a testing of his achievement.\" \u003ci\u003eJohn David Rhodes, editor of\u003c\/i\u003e On Michael Haneke \u003ci\u003e(Wayne State University Press, 2010) and author of\u003c\/i\u003e Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome\u003ci\u003e (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\" \u003ci\u003eDina Iordanova, Publisher,\u003c\/i\u003e The Film Festival Yearbook\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e http:\/\/www.dinaview.com\/\"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003ewww.DinaView.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, University of St. Andrews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRoy Grundmann (Edited by), R Grundmann (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405188005, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 April 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e656 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 18 x 5.8 cm, 1.27 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This makes the arrival of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Michael Haneke\u003c\/i\u003e all the more welcome—for supporters like me, who will find ample evidence of Haneke’s intelligence and enterprise, and for open-minded skeptics willing to risk a change of heart by perusing 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 firstrate scholar of against-the-grain cinema...This gives some idea of the breadth, creativity, and intelligence that distinguish this fine collection of essays on a filmmaker I still stand by as one of the most artfully audacious of our day.”  (\u003ci\u003eFilm Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 April 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Companion to Michael Haneke\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a new preface addressing the Academy award-winning film, \u003ci\u003eAmour\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Michael Haneke\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThree Paths to the Lake, Lemmings, Benny’s Video, The Piano Teacher, Caché, Funny Games\u003c\/i\u003e, and the 2009 Palme d’Or winner, \u003ci\u003eThe White Ribbon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Haneke’s Anachronism 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoy Grundmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Critical and Topical Approaches to Haneke’s Cinema 51\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Performative Self-Contradictions: Michael Haneke’s Mind Games 53\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Elsaesser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Five Tapes, Four Halls, Two Dreams: Vicissitudes of Surveillant Narration in Michael Haneke’s Caché 75\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Y. Levin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Infectious Images: Haneke, Cameron, Egoyan, and the Dueling Epistemologies of Video and Film 91\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eVinzenz Hediger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Tracking Code Unknown 113\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Conley Copyrighted Material\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Michael Haneke and the New Subjectivity: Architecture and Film 124\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Eisenman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Games Haneke Plays: Reality and Performance 130\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrigitte Peucker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Figures of Disgust 147\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eChrista Blümlinger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Without Music: On Caché 161\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichel Chion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Fighting the Melodramatic Condition: Haneke’s Polemics 168\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eJörg Metelmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 “Mourning for the Gods Who Have Died”: The Role of Religion in Michael Haneke’s Glaciation Trilogy 187\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGregor Thuswaldner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Television Films 203\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 A Melancholy Labor of Love, or Film Adaptation as Translation: Three Paths to the Lake 205\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFatima Naqvi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Michael Haneke and the Television Years: A Reading of Lemmings 227\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Brunette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 Variations on Themes: Spheres and Space in Haneke’s Variation 243\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonica Filimon and Fatima Naqvi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 Projecting Desire, Rewriting Cinematic Memory: Gender and German Reconstruction in Michael Haneke’s Fraulein 263\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTobias Nagl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 (Don’t) Look Now: Hallucinatory Art History in Who Was Edgar Allan? 279\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Janelle Blankenship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e16 Bureaucracy and Visual Style 301\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrian Price\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III The German-Language Theatrical Features 321\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e17 Structures of Glaciation: Gaze, Perspective, and Gestus in the Films of Michael Haneke 323\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorg Seeßlen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e18 The Void at the Center of Things: Figures of Identity in Michael Haneke’s Glaciation Trilogy 337\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter J. Schwartz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e19 How to Do Things with Violences 354\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eEugenie Brinkema\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e20 Between Adorno and Lyotard: Michael Haneke’s Aesthetic of Fragmentation 371\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoy Grundmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e21 Hollywood Endgames 420\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeland Monk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV The French-Language Theatrical Features 439\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e22 Class Conflict and Urban Public Space: Haneke and Mass Transit 441\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarton Byg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e23 Multicultural Encounters in Haneke’s French-Language Cinema 455\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlex Lykidis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e24 Haneke’s Secession: Perspectivism and Anti-Nihilism in Code Unknown and Caché 477\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eKevin L. Stoehr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e25 The Unknown Piano Teacher 495\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Warren\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e26 Discordant Desires, Violent Refrains: La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher) 511\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eJean Ma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e27 Civilization’s Endless Shadow: Haneke’s Time of the Wolf 532\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvan Torner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e28 The Intertextual and Discursive Origins of Terror in Michael Haneke’s Caché 551\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eT. Jefferson Kline\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Michael Haneke Speaks 563\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e29 Terror and Utopia of Form: Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar 565\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Haneke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e30 Violence and the Media 575\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Haneke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e31 The World That Is Known: An Interview with Michael Haneke 580\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher Sharrett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e32 Unsentimental Education: An Interview with Michael Haneke 591\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoy Grundmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilmography 607\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 619\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52437792784664,"sku":"9781405188005","price":113.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781405188005.jpg?v=1784940788","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-companion-to-michael-haneke-hardback-9781405188005","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}