Haneke, Moral Violence and Morbid Curiosity

Damian Cox; Michael P. Levine

doi:10.22618/TP.PJCV.20204.2.1763003

Haneke, Moral Violence and Morbid Curiosity

Damian Cox
, Michael P. Levine

Faculty of Society & Design

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This paper contrasts two forms of violence depicted in film: entertainment violence and moral violence. To a first approximation, moral violence is a form of interpersonal aggression aimed at causing moral injury. We claim that what distinguishes entertainment violence from moral violence is that entertainment violence is a satisfying or fitting object of morbid curiosity. Moral violence
typically isn’t such a thing. We explore how moral violence works in two films of Michael Haneke: Funny Games (1997, 2007) and The White Ribbon (2009).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	41-57
Number of pages	17
Journal	Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence
Volume	4
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22618/TP.PJCV.20204.2.1763003
Publication status	Published - Sept 2020

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