The Cinema of Werner Herzog

Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth

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by Brad Prager

Type: Studies
Subject: Director > Werner Herzog
Keywords: Werner Herzog
Publishing date: 2007
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Collection: Directors' Cuts
Language: English

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Hardcover • 224 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-905674-18-3

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
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.

Press Reviews:
An essential introduction to one of the world's greatest and most idiosyncratic filmmakers. Film Ireland

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