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Ceci n’est pas un film: Visual Perception in Michael Haneke’s
Caché
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Polley, Kerry A.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1250228246
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2009, Master of Arts, Miami University, French.
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the ethical implications of voyeurism as a diegetic construct within cinema within the specific context of Michael Haneke’s 2005 film
Caché
. The first chapter uses works by René Descartes and Diego Velázquez to frame the question of the deceitful nature of the senses, which contextualize the way we look at film as an entity distinct from lived experience. The second chapter examines theories of montage in order to elaborate upon the difference between narrative and lived experience. The third chapter looks at films by and interviews with Alfred Hitchcock to elaborate upon the previous chapter’s discussion of montage and explain the ethics and the legal code of voyeurism as presented in
Caché
.
Committee
Elisabeth Hodges, PhD (Advisor)
Jonathan Strauss, PhD (Committee Member)
Claire Goldstein, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
27 p.
Subject Headings
Comparative Literature
;
Literature
;
Romance Literature
Keywords
Michael Haneke
;
Cach&233
;
;
Descartes
;
Hitchcock
;
Velazquez
;
montage
;
cinema
;
film
;
Eisenstein
;
Metz
;
surveillance
;
spectatorship
;
voyeurism in film
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Polley, K. A. (2009).
Ceci n’est pas un film: Visual Perception in Michael Haneke’s
Caché
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1250228246
APA Style (7th edition)
Polley, Kerry.
Ceci n’est pas un film: Visual Perception in Michael Haneke’s
Caché
.
2009. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1250228246.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Polley, Kerry. "Ceci n’est pas un film: Visual Perception in Michael Haneke’s
Caché
." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1250228246
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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