A Companion to Werner Herzog.
Title:
A Companion to Werner Herzog.
Author:
Prager, Brad.
ISBN:
9781444361407
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (645 pages)
Series:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors ; v.17
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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