The Cinema of Werner Herzog by Brad Prager
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.Brad Prager is an Associate Professor of German and a member of the University of Missouri's Cinema Studies Program. Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (2007) and The Film of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (2007) are two monographs he has written. New German Critique, Studies in Documentary Cinema, Art History, and the Modern Language Review have all published his work. He co-edited the collections The Collapse of the Conventional: German Cinema and its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (2010) and Visualizing the Holocaust: Documentation, Aesthetics, Remembrance (2008), which he co-edited most recently.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781905674176 |
| ISBN 10 | 1905674171 |
| Title | The Cinema of Werner Herzog |
| Author | Brad Prager |
| Series | Directors' Cuts Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wallflower Press |
| Year published | 2007-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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