Walker, Elsie - Hearing Haneke
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Walker, Elsie - Hearing Haneke

Catalogue No: 9780190495909
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Hearing Haneke: The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur is the first book devoted to the sound tracks of Michael Haneke. Despite his notorious preoccupation with violence, this book shows how Haneke uses sound to reawaken our capacity for hearing the world with greater compassionate understanding.

CONTENTS

Prelude: Why does hearing Haneke's films matter?
1. Introduction: Hearing Haneke through the critical ruckus
2. The Seventh Continent: the noises of consumerism, the music of something more
3. Funny Games: amplifying violence, the violators, and the victims
4. Code Unknown: sonically representing social divisions, diversity, and hope
5. The Piano Teacher: musical beauty without transcendence
6. Cache: the postcolonial resonance of silences and saying nothing
7. The White Ribbon: hearing Symbolic oppression and the Real in rebellion
8. Amour: the screams of life answered with love
Works Cited
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SeriesOxford Music / Media
9780190495909