Existing critical traditions fail to fully account for the impact of Austrian director, and 2009
Cannes Palm d'Or winner, Michael Haneke's films, situated as they are between intellectual …

Where, psychologically, can we locate Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher (France/Austria
2001)? Despite moments in which it appears that we are following traces of feminine desire …

In a recent article for the American journal Film Comment, Richard Combs argues that
Michael Haneke is currently the paradigmatic filmmaker of 'a new European art cinema' …

Since its release in 2001, Michael Haneke's La Pianiste has been the subject of conflicting
responses and readings from various critical camps. Taking Robin Wood's 2002 critical …

Performance Anxiety in Media Culture explores the culture of performance anxiety in the
media-saturated contemporary world. It uses comparative case studies including film, social …

117 to express the othered status of women (as in her 1987 play entitled Illness, or Modern
Women) 3 as well as to express her leftist political views. Nominated by Communist Party …

This thesis seeks to explore healing through vulnerability, on the basis of Erinn C. Gilson's
conception of vulnerability as a fundamental condition of human existence. Defined by …

This chapter explores the stylistic portrayal of interior spaces in Belle de jour and argues that
this is integral to illustrating and emphasizing Séverine's internal emotions and desires, that …

Flesh (Benoît Jacquot 1998), La Pianiste/The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke 2001), and
Ma mère/My Mother (Christophe Honoré 2004)). When considering Huppert's stardom as …

This thesis seeks to explore healing through vulnerability, on the basis of Erinn C. Gilson's
conception of vulnerability as a fundamental condition of human existence. Defined by …