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About the Book

A look at the illustrious director's paradoxical relationship with documentary.Werner Herzog has directed almost sixty films, roughly half of which are documentaries. And yet, 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 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.



Table of Contents:


Contents


Acknowledgments

The Minnesota Declaration

Introduction: Werner Herzog, Documentary Outsider


1. Sensational Bodies

Game in the Sand

Handicapped Future

Land of Silence and Darkness

Wodaabe

2. Moving Landscapes

The Dark Glow of the Mountains

Fata Morgana, La Soufrière

Lessons of Darkness

Wheel of Time

3. Ecstatic Journeys

Huie’s Sermon

Bells from the Deep

Pilgrimage

4. Baroque Visions

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

Death for Five Voices

God and the Burdened

5. Cultural Politics

Fitzcarraldo

Ballad of the Little Soldier

Ten Thousand Years Older

The White Diamond

6. Reenactments

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Wings of Hope

Rescue Dawn

7. Autobiographical Acts

I Am My Films

Portrait Werner Herzog

My Best Fiend

Grizzly Man

Conclusion: Herzog’s Vérité

Encounters at the End of the World

The Cave of Forgotten Dreams


Notes

Index







About the Author :

Eric Ames is associate professor of German and a member of the cinema studies faculty at the University of Washington. He is coeditor of Germany's Colonial Pasts and author of Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments.



Review :
"Werner Herzog has long avowed that he hates documentaries and does not participate in the tradition. Eric Ames’s wonderful book lets us in on an open secret: `Herzog has. . . added to the vitality and visibility of documentary cinema internationally for more than four decades.’ I would go further: the best of the films that Herzog has made over his long career have been those that, if not called documentaries, cannot be labeled fictions. Werner Herzog’s challenges to the documentary tradition have inevitably become part of that tradition. This book shows us how." —Linda Williams, University of California, Berkeley
"Ferocious Reality is excellent. The book centers on how Herzog consistently undertakes an exploration of the limits of documentary cinema and engages with it as performative behavior, challenging its boundaries. Eric Ames analyzes a broad range of Herzog’s films and engages with an array of important theoreticians of documentary cinema. This book is first-rate and innovative." —Brad Prager, author of The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780816677634
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0816677638
  • Publisher Date: 17 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Series Title: Visible Evidence
  • Sub Title: Documentary according to Werner Herzog


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