Michael Haneke : the intermedial void / Christopher Rowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowe, Christopher, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haneke, Michael, 1942---Criticism and interpretation.

Haneke, Michael.

Haneke, Michael, 1942-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 262 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.

Summary:

The two primary goals of this ambitious study are to provide a new framework in which to interpret the films of Michael Haneke, including Funny Games, Caché, and others, and to show how the concept of intermediality can be used to expand the possibilities of film and media studies, tying the two more closely together. Christopher Rowe argues that Haneke's practice of introducing nonfilmic media into his films is not simply an aspect of his interest in society's oversaturation in various forms of media. Instead, the use of video, television, photography, literary voice, and other media must be understood as modes of expression that fundamentally oppose the film medium itself. The "intermedial void" is a product of the absolute incommensurability of these media forms as perceptual and affective phenomena. Close analysis of specific films shows how their relationship to noncinematic media transforms the nature of the film image, and of film spectatorsnip. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Haneke and the media question

The non-image: Der siebente Kontinent

The film of the video: Benny's video and Funny games

Audiovisual fragmentation and the event: 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls and Code inconnu

Adaptation as an intermedial practice: Haneke's television adaptations, Das schlo? and La pianiste

The intermedial dynamics of shame: Cache

Conclusion: Haneke's intermedial realism

Appendix: plot summaries and credits of relevant Haneke films.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810134607

0810134608

9780810134591

0810134594

OCLC:

948340292