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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ames, Eric, 1969-

Series:

Visible evidence ; v.27.

Visible evidence ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herzog, Werner, 1942---Criticism and interpretation.

Herzog, Werner.

Herzog, Werner, 1942-.

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Summary:

Over the course of his career Werner Herzog 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: ôThere 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 ask how this conviction, so hostile to the traditional tenets of documentary, can inform the work of one of the world's most provocative documentarians. In close, contextualized analysis of more than twenty-five films spanning Herzog's career, Ames makes a case for exploring documentary films in terms of performance and explains what it means to do so. His book expands the field of cinema studies even as it offers an invaluable new perspective on a little studied but integral part of Werner Herzog's extraordinary oeuvre. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Werner Herzog, documentary outsider

Sensational bodies

Moving landscapes

Ecstatic journeys

Baroque visions

Cultural politics

Reenactments

Autobiographical acts

Conclusion: Herzog's vérité.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816677634

0816677638

9780816677641

0816677646

OCLC:

788270090