Stefanie Knauss

Alexander Darius Ornella

Michael Haneke is one of Europe's most successful and controversial film directors. Awarded the Palme d'Or and numerous other international awards, Haneke has contributed to and shaped contemporary auteur cinema and is becoming more and more popular among academics and cinephiles. His mission is as noble as it is provocative: he wants "to rape the audience into independence," to wake them up from the lethargy caused by the entertainment industry. The filmic language he employs in this mission is both highly characteristic and efficient, and yet his methods are open to criticism for their violence toward and manipulation of the audience. The aim of this book is to analyze critically Haneke's aesthetics, his message, as well as his ethical motivation from an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective. Contributors to the book come from a variety of academic disciplines and cultural backgrounds-European and North American.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Michael Haneke's Cinema

Fascinatingly Disturbing

Anna-Katharina Höpflinger

Als Basismedium der menschlichen Interaktion ist der Körper wesentlich für sozio-kulturelle Kommunikationssysteme, insbesondere für das Kommunikationssystem "Religion". Der Band untersucht dieses Systeme und die Rolle, die der Körper in deren Organisation spielt aus der Perspektive des "Concept of Body" sowie unter Rückgriff auf die Medien- und Kommunikationstheorie.

Body as a Medium in Religious Symbol Systems

Commun(icat)ing Bodies

As a basic medium of human interaction, the body is fundamental to socio-cultural communication systems, in particular the communication system «religion». Over time, religious traditions – in all their various cultural and historical forms and incarnations – have developed elaborated symbolic systems with the body at their center. This volume proposes to study these systems and the role that body plays in their organization through the perspective of the concept of body as a medium and by drawing on media and communication theory. The papers collected in this volume explore this perspective in relation to different religious traditions, historical periods and theoretical as well as theological themes. They also engage in specific theoretical frameworks in order to discuss the scope and limitations of thinking of the body as a medium in religious symbol systems. Topics covered range from ancient mythology to contemporary Parsi rituals to the boundaries between body and technology.

Alexander Darius Ornella

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