Companion to Michael Haneke

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Report

"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

Product details

• Authors: Roy (Boston University Grundmann
• Assisted by: Roy Grundmann (Editor), Grundmann Roy (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 11.04.2014
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV
• EAN: 9781118723487
• ISBN: 978-1-118-72348-7
• Pages: 656
• Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors; WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
• Subjects: Film, Kulturwissenschaften, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Filmforschung, History of Cinema, Geschichte des Filmtheaters