The Oeuvre of Michael Haneke: From Violence Towards Anomie

The author first introduces us to the foundations of Michael Haneke’s film poetics and his relationship toward violence. Then, through dealing with the topics of his
films and with representation of violence in his oeuvre, text argues for a thesis that Haneke, as an engaged cineaste, remains focused on an anomy of contemporary society and one of its principal dimensions – violence, perceived by the director as an always unbearable structural effect.

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