Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lisa Coulthard
• Tina Kendall
• Tanya Horeck

Titel

Interrogating the Obscene: Extremism and Michael Haneke

Ist Teil von

• The New Extremism in Cinema, 2011, p.180

Ort / Verlag

Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• At the Cannes Festival press conference for Das Weisse Band/The White Ribbon in May 2009, Michael Haneke made what is perhaps the most important and yet deceivingly simplistic interpretative comment on his films: ‘All my films are about violence.’ To anyone familiar with Haneke’s œuvre, this is perhaps exceedingly obvious, but this seeming transparency only serves to make the unpacking of the statement more crucial. What does it mean for a film to be about violence and how do Haneke’s films do this? While it is necessary to be critical of accepting wholesale interpretive frameworks advocated by the filmmaker himself