Hearing Haneke: The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur

ISBN-13: 9780190495909 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 234 str.

Elsie M. Walker

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Hearing Haneke is a call to hear and listen anew, to re-hear the cinematic world and our place within it. Walker places the sound track at the heart of Hanekes oeuvre, and the humanity unveiled through the listening act offers a critical challenge to the visual bias that still prevails in much of film studies. In each chapter, Walker poses questions of the sound track and for the reader. Walkers book is as compelling as it is (com)passionate about the representative sounds in Hanekes films, making Hearing Haneke essential reading.

O autorze

Elsie Walker is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Salisbury University and author of Understanding Sound Tracks through Film Theory (OUP, 2015).