Ferocious reality : documentary according to Werner Herzog / Eric Ames.
Material type: TextSeries: Visible evidence ; v. 27.Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: x, 334 pages : illustrationsContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0816677638
- 9780816677634
- 0816677646
- 9780816677641
- 070.18 23
- PN1998.3.H477 A63 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Werner Herzog, documentary outsider -- Sensational bodies -- Moving landscapes -- Ecstatic journeys -- Baroque visions -- Cultural politics -- Reenactments -- Autobiographical acts -- Conclusion: Herzog's vérité.
Over the course of his career Werner Herzog, known for such visionary masterpieces as Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), has directed almost sixty films, roughly half of which are documentaries. And yet, in a statement delivered during a public appearance in 1999, the filmmaker declared: "There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization." Ferocious Reality is the first book to.
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