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Ferocious reality : documentary according to Werner Herzog / Eric Ames.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ames, Eric.
- Series:
- Visible evidence ; v. 27.
- Visible evidence ; 27
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Documentary films--History and criticism.
- Documentary films.
- Herzog, Werner, 1942---Criticism and interpretation.
- Herzog, Werner.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- Introduction: Werner Herzog, documentary outsider
- Sensational bodies
- Moving landscapes
- Ecstatic journeys
- Baroque visions
- Cultural politics
- Reenactments
- Autobiographical acts
- Conclusion: Herzog's verite.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4814-3
- 0-8166-8201-1
- OCLC:
- 826854544
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