Wheatley, Catherine
Cache Hidden (BFI Film Classics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9781838719562
- author:
- Wheatley, Catherine
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 104
- Dimensions:
- 19.05 x 13.72 x 0.76 centimetres
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Performing Arts, Film & Video,
- Condition:
- New
- supplier_id:
- 56
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Michael Haneke's Caché (2005) is a film that has left audiences with more questions than answers. A series of sinister videos and drawings are sent to a television presenter, leading to a mystery that remains unsolved. Despite the film's enigmatic nature, it explores several key themes, including the film as thriller, post-colonial bourgeois guilt, political accountability, and reality in relation to media and its audiences. In this in-depth analysis, Catherine Wheatley examines the complexities of Caché through close readings of individual scenes and moments. The author avoids a single approach to understanding the film, instead revealing the multiplicity of meanings that underlie it. This edition includes a new foreword by the author, reflecting on Caché's significance within Haneke's oeuvre and its contemporary relevance in an era of surveillance technology. Wheatley's detailed analysis opens up the secrets of Caché, exploring how the film's shifting perspectives conceal layers of unseen depth.
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