Fooling around with film : political visions of Austria - past, present and future

Fiddler, Allyson (2011) Fooling around with film : political visions of Austria - past, present and future. Austrian Studies, 19 (1). pp. 126-141. ISSN 1350-7532

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Abstract

This article takes as its focus of study two films released at the beginning of the Noughties that use the documentary mode to satirical ends. These films might be said to represent two types of ‘fake’ documentary or mock-documentary, in the first case within a film that styles itself with all the codes and conventions of a classic information film (Walter Wippersberg’s Die Wahrheit über Österreich) and, in the other (Peter Kern’s 1. April 2021 – Haider lebt), a film whose near-future setting marks it as fiction but which foregrounds the investigative activities of a protagonist setting out to make a ‘documentary’ film about contemporary Austria. Both films, I argue, draw their impetus from the political ‘Wende’ of 1999/2000 and can be taken as cultural contributions to the domestic as well as international protest at the inclusion of the populist, extreme right-wing party, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) into Austria’s coalition government of February 2000.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Austrian Studies
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/mediaandculturalstudies/europe
Subjects:
?? documentaryfilm studiesaustrian culture and politicsprotestpopulismextreme rightsatireeuropearts and humanities(all)cultural studiesvisual arts and performing artshistorypolitical science and international relations ??
ID Code:
52086
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Deposited On:
16 Dec 2011 15:16
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Yes
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Published
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31 Dec 2023 00:23