The portrayal of social catastrophe in the German-language films of Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke (1942- )
Subtitle: an examination of The seventh continent (1989), Benny's video (1992), 71 fragments of a chronology of chance (1994), and Funny games (1997)
By: Dennis Eugene Russell ; with a foreword by H. Peter Steeves
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780773414907
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: unbandaged wounds; title: Seventh continent: flight from light; title: Benny's video: life and death on rewind; title: Fragments of a chronology of chance: culture of emotional paralysis; title: Funny games: spectator culpability and the unraveling of the moral code; title: Conclusion: cinema of consequences.