Desvios na imagem - acerca de um cinema sobre o controle: um estudo dos filmes O vídeo de Benny, Violência gratuita e Caché, de Michael Haneke

Abstract

This thesis investigates Benny´s Video (1992), Funny Games (1997) and Hidden (Caché, 2005), three films from the austrian-german movie diretor Michael Haneke, regarding what we named image detour. The term was used as reference to manipulative videografic resources, like rewinding, fast-forwarding and pausing these movies´ images, by it´s characters. Those reflexive devices are employed with different purposes, and in diverse circumstances, and reveal fundamental aspects from Haneke´s work. From strategies of identification and distance, the director constructs a rigid and controlling cinema, which problematizes the artifices of cinematographic representation, which unfolds its acid criticism to the postmodern society and Hollywood mainstream cinema.