Crisis Narrative and Affective Intermediality: Figuring Disaster in Michael Haneke’s <i>Time of the Wolf</i>

Abstract Michael Haneke’s Time of the Wolf ( Le temps du loup , 2003) depicts a grim vision world in aftermath an unnamed catastrophe. Haneke turns genre dystopia into experimental terrain where he can test limits cinematic medium sense “negating cinema order to let reality speak for itself” (Nagib 2016, 147). An existential parable, envisions sombre post-millenium age. It is sharp analysis what remains man and society when frame civilization collapses. scrutinizes functioning mechanisms individual, family social community times undone. A harsh experiment towards negative dialectics image, film’s exceptionally austere language confronts spectator with aesthetics “unwatchable” (Baer et al., 2019) “cinematic unpleasure” (Aston 2010). The paper explores ways which “intermedial realism” (Rowe 2017) also manifests this film through photo-filmic images painterly compositions, perceptions stillness motion, cultural remnants past, giving way affective sensations intermediality.