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Ferocious reality : documentary according to Werner Herzog / Eric Ames.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Visible evidence ; v. 27.Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: x, 334 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0816677638
  • 9780816677634
  • 0816677646
  • 9780816677641
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Ferocious reality; No titleDDC classification:
  • 070.18 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.3.H477 A63 2012
Contents:
Introduction: Werner Herzog, documentary outsider -- Sensational bodies -- Moving landscapes -- Ecstatic journeys -- Baroque visions -- Cultural politics -- Reenactments -- Autobiographical acts -- Conclusion: Herzog's vérité.
Summary: 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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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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