Explores Haneke's historically complex film as a reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child-rearing.

Introduction
Literariness
Inscriptions
Black Pedagogy
Working Through Working Through
Women's Meta-Commentary
Germanness
An Ecology of Images
The Unresolved Mystery
Coda
Credits
Notes

FATIMA NAQVI is Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and an Affiliate of the Film and Media Studies Program at Yale University.