TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ames,Eric
TI  - Ferocious reality: documentary according to Werner Herzog 
T2  - Visible evidence
SN  - 0816677638
AV  - PN1998.3.H477 A63 2012
U1  - 070.18 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Herzog, Werner,
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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