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A Companion to Michael Haneke
Roy Grundmann
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Description for A Companion to Michael Haneke
Paperback. A Companion to Michael Haneke is a definitive collection of newly-commissioned work that covers Haneke's body of work in its entirety, catering to students and scholars of Haneke at a time when interest in the director and his work is soaring. Editor(s): Grundmann, Roy. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors. Num Pages: 656 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 170 x 243 x 32. Weight in Grams: 988.
A Companion to Michael Haneke
With a new preface addressing the Academy award-winning film, Amour, this new-in-paper edition has established itself as the definitive collection on Michael Haneke—from his early work in television and theater, through his prodigious cinematic output, to his 2009 triumph at Cannes.
A Companion to Michael Haneke brings together essays by leading film scholars, as well as interviews with the director himself, to probe the provocative and controversial themes that have formed the nucleus of Haneke’s work—intergenerational dysfunction and social alienation, colonialism and citizenship, surveillance and pornography, mass culture and media violence. The volume also offers ... Read more
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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
Condition
New
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781118723487
SKU
V9781118723487
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99-50
About Roy Grundmann
Roy Grundmann is Associate Professor of Film Studies, and Film Studies Program Director in the Department of Film and Television, Boston University. He is co-editor of the four-volume Blackwell History of American Film.
Reviews for A Companion to Michael Haneke
“The largest body of critical, theoretical, and historical work on Haneke so far assembled in one volume. The book’s thirty-two essays have been judiciously chosen and edited by Roy Grundmann, a first-rate scholar of against-the-grain cinema.” - Film Quarterly