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Title

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

Author

Ames, Eric, 1969-

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012.

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Description

x, 334 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

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: "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." This book asks how this conviction, 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, the author makes a case for exploring documentary films in terms of performance and explains what it means to do so.--From publisher description.

Series Statement

Visible evidence ; 27

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• Project Muse UPCC books
• Visible evidence ; v. 27.

Subject

• Herzog, Werner, 1942- > Criticism and interpretation
• Herzog, Werner, 1942-
• Documentary films > History and criticism
• Documentary films
• Documentaires
• Dokumentarfilm
• (gtt)Documentaires

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-320) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Werner Herzog, documentary outsider -- Sensational bodies -- Moving landscapes -- Ecstatic journeys -- Baroque visions -- Cultural politics -- Reenactments -- Autobiographical acts -- Conclusion: Herzog's vérité.

ISBN

• 9780816677634
• 0816677638
• 9780816677641
• 0816677646

LCCN

^^2012030014

OCLC

788270090

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library