Michael Haneke is one of the most important directors working in
Europe today, with films such as "Funny Games" (1997), "Code
Unknown" (2000), and "Hidden" (2005) interrogating modern ethical
dilemmas with forensic clarity and merciless insight. Haneke's
films frequently implicate both the protagonists and the audience
in the making of their misfortunes, yet even in the barren nihilism
of "The Seventh Continent" (1989) and "Time of the Wolf" (2003) a
dark strain of optimism emerges, releasing each from its terrible
and inescapable guilt. It is this contingent and unlikely
possibility that we find in Haneke's cinema: a utopian Europe. This
collection celebrates, explicates, and sometimes challenges the
worldview of Haneke's films. It examines the director's central
themes and preoccupations--bourgeois alienation, modes and
critiques of spectatorship, the role of the media--and analyzes
otherwise marginalized aspects of his work, such as the function of
performance and stardom, early Austrian television productions, the
romanticism of "The Piano Teacher" (2001), and the 2007
shot-for-shot remake of "Funny Games."
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