...James S. Williams This essay analyzes Michael Haneke's new film The White Ribbon (2009), focusing on its exceptional plastic qualities and intensive use of sound. It is argued that an ironic, disjunctive practice of montage exposes and resists the narrative of ritualized punishment, thereby...

...D. I. Grossvogel ABSTRACT Michael Haneke's career began with harsh, alienating, and self-referential works concerned with violence and social hypocrisy. His later work, especially Hidden (2005), which explores racism in France, is both less disconcerting and more hopeful. This article shows how...