Elsie Walker is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Salisbury University and author of Understanding Sound Tracks through Film Theory (OUP, 2015).

• Prelude: Why does hearing Haneke's films matter?1. Introduction: Hearing Haneke through the critical ruckus 2. The Seventh Continent: the noises of consumerism, the music of something more3. Funny Games: amplifying violence, the violators, and the victims 4. Code Unknown: sonically representing social divisions, diversity, and hope5. The Piano Teacher: musical beauty without transcendence 6. Caché: the postcolonial resonance of silences and saying "nothing"7. The White Ribbon: hearing Symbolic oppression and the Real in rebellion8. Amour: the screams of life answered with loveWorks CitedIndex

Hearing Haneke is a call to hear and listen anew, to re-hear the cinematic world and our place within it. Walker places the sound track at the heart of Hanekes oeuvre, and the humanity unveiled through the listening act offers a critical challenge to the visual bias that still prevails in much of film studies. In each chapter, Walker poses questions of the sound track and for the reader. Walkers book is as compelling as it is (com)passionate about the representative sounds in Hanekes films, making Hearing Haneke essential reading.

Elsie Walker is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Salisbury University and author of Understanding Sound Tracks through Film Theory (OUP, 2015).

• Prelude: Why does hearing Haneke's films matter?1. Introduction: Hearing Haneke through the critical ruckus 2. The Seventh Continent: the noises of consumerism, the music of something more3. Funny Games: amplifying violence, the violators, and the victims 4. Code Unknown: sonically representing social divisions, diversity, and hope5. The Piano Teacher: musical beauty without transcendence 6. Caché: the postcolonial resonance of silences and saying "nothing"7. The White Ribbon: hearing Symbolic oppression and the Real in rebellion8. Amour: the screams of life answered with loveWorks CitedIndex

Hearing Haneke is a call to hear and listen anew, to re-hear the cinematic world and our place within it. Walker places the sound track at the heart of Hanekes oeuvre, and the humanity unveiled through the listening act offers a critical challenge to the visual bias that still prevails in much of film studies. In each chapter, Walker poses questions of the sound track and for the reader. Walkers book is as compelling as it is (com)passionate about the representative sounds in Hanekes films, making Hearing Haneke essential reading.

Elsie Walker is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Salisbury University and author of Understanding Sound Tracks through Film Theory (OUP, 2015).

• Prelude: Why does hearing Haneke's films matter?1. Introduction: Hearing Haneke through the critical ruckus 2. The Seventh Continent: the noises of consumerism, the music of something more3. Funny Games: amplifying violence, the violators, and the victims 4. Code Unknown: sonically representing social divisions, diversity, and hope5. The Piano Teacher: musical beauty without transcendence 6. Caché: the postcolonial resonance of silences and saying "nothing"7. The White Ribbon: hearing Symbolic oppression and the Real in rebellion8. Amour: the screams of life answered with loveWorks CitedIndex

Hearing Haneke is a call to hear and listen anew, to re-hear the cinematic world and our place within it. Walker places the sound track at the heart of Hanekes oeuvre, and the humanity unveiled through the listening act offers a critical challenge to the visual bias that still prevails in much of film studies. In each chapter, Walker poses questions of the sound track and for the reader. Walkers book is as compelling as it is (com)passionate about the representative sounds in Hanekes films, making Hearing Haneke essential reading.