A Companion to Werner Herzog.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prager, Brad.

Contributor:

Prager, Brad, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--Germany.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2600 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2012.

Summary:

A Companion to Werner Herzog showcases over two dozen original scholarly essays examining nearly five decades of filmmaking by one of the most acclaimed and innovative figures in world cinema. * First collection in twenty years dedicated to examining Herzog's expansive career * Features essays by international scholars and Herzog specialists * Addresses a broad spectrum of the director's films, from his earliest works such as Signs of Life and Fata Morgana to such recent films as The Bad Lieutenant and Encounters at the End of the World * Offers creative, innovative approaches guided by film history, art history, and philosophy * Includes a comprehensive filmography that also features a list of the director's acting appearances and opera productions * Explores the director's engagement with music and the arts, his self-stylization as a global filmmaker, his Bavarian origins, and even his love-hate relationship with the actor Klaus Kinski

Contents:

Intro

A Companion to Werner Herzog

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Werner Herzog's Companions: The Consolation of Images

Part I Critical Approaches and Contexts

1 Herzog and Auteurism: Performing Authenticity

2 Physicality, Difference, and the Challenge of Representation: Werner Herzog in the Light of the New Waves

3 The Pedestrian Ecstasies of Werner Herzog: On Experience, Intelligence, and the Essayistic

Part II Herzog and the Inter-arts

4 Werner Herzog's View of Delft: Or, Nosferatu and the Still Life

5 Moving Stills: Herzog and Photography

6 Archetypes of Emotion: Werner Herzog and Opera

7 Coming to Our Senses: The Viewer and Herzog's Sonic Worlds

8 Death for Five Voices: Gesualdo's "Poetic Truth"

9 Demythologization and Convergence: Herzog's Late Genre Pictures and the Rogue Cop Film in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call-New Orleans

Part III Herzog's German Encounters

10 "I don't like the Germans": Even Herzog Started in Bavaria

11 Herzog's Heart of Glass and the Sublime of Raw Materials

12 The Ironic Ecstasy of Werner Herzog: Embodied Vision in The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

13 Tantrum Love: The Fiendship of Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog

Part IV Herzog's Far-Flung Cinema Africa, Australia, the Americas, and Beyond

14 Werner Herzog's African Sublime

15 Didgeridoo, or the Search for the Origin of the Self: Werner Herzog's Where the Green Ants Dream and Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines

16 A March into Nothingness: The Changing Course of Herzog's Indian Images

17 The Case of Herzog: Re-Opened

18 The Veil Between: Werner Herzog's American TV Documentaries

19 Herzog's Chickenshit

20 Encountering Werner Herzog at the End of the World

Part V Toward the Limits of Experience Philosophical Approaches.

21 Perceiving the Other in the Land of Silence and Darkness

22 Werner Herzog's Romantic Spaces

23 The Melancholy Observer: Landscape, Neo-Romanticism, and the Politics of Documentary Filmmaking

24 Portrait of the Chimpanzee as a Metaphysician: Parody and Dehumanization in Echoes from a Somber Empire

25 Herzog and Human Destiny: The Philosophical Purposiveness of the Filmmaker

Filmography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781444361407

1444361406