NOTES

• Bleak & deep subject matter
• Animalistic - Throughout Haneke's work an animal dies on screen.
• Dystopian
• Political Modernism
• Cathartic
• Self-conscious
• Contemporary urban life
• "Alienation from yourself and others"
• "You never show reality; you only show its manipulated image." - Haneke
• "our social and psychological wound." - Haneke (Loss of humanity)
• "All my films are about violence." - Haneke
• http://www.scoop.it/t/film-studies?q=michael+haneke
• Brunette's work is useful to me due to its focus upon how Haneke is a modernist and iconoclastic filmmaker. The source withholds information on both the director's life and work, one quotation demonstrating that in his early films there "is a bitter, ongoing sociopolitical critique of the middle class," particularly within The Seventh Continent, and comments on "the spiritual emptiness of our generation." Furthermore, he explores the themes of Haneke's work, such as "the alienation from self and others" bore from a contemporary society, and quotes the director calling it "our social and psychological wound" in support of this. These pose Haneke as an auteur, whilst show that the on screen human suffering mirrors the audience's "psychological dynamics."