Fascinatingly Disturbing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Michael Haneke's Cinema
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Overview
Michael Haneke is one of Europe’s most successful and controversial film directors. Awarded the Palme d’Or and numerous other international awards, Haneke has contributed to and shaped contemporary auteur cinema and is becoming more and more popular among academics and cinephiles. His mission is as noble as it is provocative: he wants “to rape the audience into independence,” to wake them up from the lethargy caused by the entertainment industry. The filmic language he employs in this mission is both highly characteristic and efficient, and yet his methods are open to criticism for their violence toward and manipulation of the audience. The aim of this book is to analyze critically Haneke’s aesthetics, his message, as well as his ethical motivation from an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective. Contributors to the book come from a variety of academic disciplines and cultural backgrounds-European and North American.
”Sex and art, sin and guilt, religion and violence, this book
has it all. With its focus on Haneke’s enigmatic filmmaking,
Ornella and Knauss have provided a great service by pulling
together multiple issues relevant to contemporary life. Starting
with the view of the world seen through Haneke’s lens, the authors
here provide their own lenses onto Haneke’s work, keeping the
readers fascinated and disturbed."
--S. Brent Plate
author of Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-creation of the
World
“The superbly structured Ornella/Knauss collection will stand apart
from other new Haneke anthologies for an unconventional mix of
examinations that are not in a rush to respond to trendy discourse
or even to take on the director as phenomenon. The text gives
Haneke a voice in the proceedings but also asks ‘How Much Haneke Do
We Deserve.’ The presentations located between these two poles make
for a truly vibrant investigation that is as excitingly daring as
the writing is elegant."
--Robert von Dassanowsky
author of Austrian Cinema: A History
Product Details
- Title : Fascinatingly Disturbing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Michael Haneke's Cinema
- Authors:
- Ornella, Alexander Darius
- Knauss, Stefanie
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Publication Date: 2010
- ISBN: 9781621899358
Alexander D. Ornella is a lecturer in Religion at the School of
Social Sciences at University of Hull (UK). He holds a PhD in
Catholic Theology from the University of Graz (Austria). His
research interests include religion and popular culture/media/film,
religion and body/technology, science fiction, transhumanism. His
latest research project evolves around religion and CrossFit, which
brands itself as "the sport of fitness" and emphasizes community
building. He is part of the research group Commun(icat)ing Bodies
(http://communicating-bodies.net) and the International Exchange on
Media and Religion (http://media-religion.net).
Stefanie Knauss is Research Fellow at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler,
Centro per le Science Religiose, Trento (Italy). She is the author
of Transcendental Bodies (2008).
Together they edited Reconfigurations: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on Religion in a Post-Secular Society (2008).