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Between the street and the apartment: disturbing the space of fortress Europe in Michael Haneke
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Between the street and the apartment: disturbing the space of fortress Europe in Michael Haneke

Michael Cowan
Studies in European cinema, Vol.5(2), pp.117-129
02/01/2009
DOI: 10.1386/seci.5.2.117_1

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Abstract

This article reads two of Haneke's French-language films, Code inconnu/Code Unknown and Caché/Hidden, as critiques of a fortress mentality in the new Europe. Examining Haneke's engagement with Neorealismi aesthetics of the 'encounter'-as well as the tension between interior and street and sound and image in these films-I argue that Haneke uses filmic aesthetics to thwart his characters' efforts to close off space and avoid encounters.
Caché Code inconnu encounter Haneke Michael migration non-places

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