Werner Herzog is renowned for pushing the boundaries of conventional cinema, especially those between the fictional and the factual, the fantastic and the real. The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth is the first study in twenty years devoted entirely to an analysis of Herzog's work. It explores the director's continuing search for what he has described as 'ecstatic truth,' drawing on over thirty-five films, from the epics Aguirre: Wrath of God (1972) and Fitzcarraldo (1982) to innovative documentaries like Fata Morgana (1971), Lessons of Darkness (1992), and Grizzly Man (2005). Special attention is paid to Herzog's signature style of cinematic composition, his "romantic" influences, and his fascination with madmen, colonialism, and war.
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Brad Prager is assistant professor of film studies and German studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and the author of Writing Images: Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism.
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This book reviews the life and work of German director Werner Herzog. It is clearly written and engaging. I think that both serious Herzog scholars and casual fans would find the book interesting. For instance, he are some of the author's piquant observations about Herzog's film Grizly Man.
"There are similarities between Herzog and Treadwell (and not only in the fact that both men changed their last names)...[Treadwell] also partakes of that same unusual combination of improvisation and staging that characterizes Herzog's documentaries.
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Werner Herzog is not a director who calls upon others to speak on behalf of his films. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
woodchuck chuck, aesthetic ecstasy and truth, ecstatic truth, formal irony Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wrath of God, Heart of Glass, Fata Morgana, Little Dieter Needs, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Cobra Verde, Grizzly Man, Signs of Life, Lessons of Darkness, Where the Green Ants Dream, Nosferatu the Vampyre, World War Two, Burden of Dreams, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Scream of Stone, Ballad of the Little Soldier, The Wild Blue Yonder, The White Diamond, Sombre Empire, While Herzog, New Spain, Dalai Lama, Wings of Hope, Rescue Dawn, Cerro Torre Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Werner Herzog is not a director who calls upon others to speak on behalf of his films. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
woodchuck chuck, aesthetic ecstasy and truth, ecstatic truth, formal irony Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wrath of God, Heart of Glass, Fata Morgana, Little Dieter Needs, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Cobra Verde, Grizzly Man, Signs of Life, Lessons of Darkness, Where the Green Ants Dream, Nosferatu the Vampyre, World War Two, Burden of Dreams, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Scream of Stone, Ballad of the Little Soldier, The Wild Blue Yonder, The White Diamond, Sombre Empire, While Herzog, New Spain, Dalai Lama, Wings of Hope, Rescue Dawn, Cerro Torre Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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