Abstract

By using a theoretical approach that makes use of a multitude of branches of knowledge, this piece of work seeks to understand the pictorial presentation of violence and its relations with the media in Michael Haneke’s “glaciation trilogy”, made up of the movies The Seventh Continent, Benny’s Video and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance. This essay defends that the way in which the Austrian director presents violence, explicitly in these three compositions, differs itself from the way that the media and genre cinema treat it.