A Companion to Michael Haneke is a definitive collection of newly-commissioned work that covers Haneke's body of work in its entirety, catering to students and scholars of Haneke at a time when interest in the director and his work is soaring. * Introduces one of the most important directors to have emerged on the global cinema scene in the past fifteen years * Includes exclusive interviews with Michael Haneke, including an interview discussion of The White Ribbon * Considers themes, topics, and subjects that have formed the nucleus of the director's life's work: the fate of European cinema, Haneke in Hollywood, pornography, alienation, citizenship, colonialism, and the gaze of surveillance * Features critical examinations of La Pianiste, Time of the Wolf, Three Paths to the Lake and Cache, amongst others