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Pre-War Trauma: Haneke's The White Ribbon
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Pre-War Trauma: Haneke's The White Ribbon

Garrett Stewart
Film quarterly, Vol.63(4), pp.40-47
06/01/2010
DOI: 10.1525/FQ.2010.63.4.40

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Abstract

The surgical rigor of Haneke's The White Ribbon lays bare the underlying brutality of family life in a German village, microcosm of a social order whose strictures and class resentments fester on the eve of WWI. Punishment, abuse, and humiliation tighten a mysterious web of spite and reprisal among the local children, with national history waiting ominously in the wings.

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