Ferocious reality : documentary according to Werner Herzog

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    • Ames, Eric

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Ferocious reality : documentary according to Werner Herzog

Eric Ames

（Visible evidence / edited by Michael Renov, Faye Ginsburg, and Jane Gaines, 27）

University of Minnesota Press, c2012

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Over the course of his career Werner Herzog, known for such visionary masterpieces as Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), 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." 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. Herzog, whose Cave of Forgotten Dreams was perhaps the most celebrated documentary of 2010, may be the most influential filmmaker missing from major studies and histories of documentary. Examining such notable films as Lessons of Darkness (1992) and Grizzly Man (2005), Eric Ames shows how Herzog dismisses documentary as a mode of filmmaking in order to creatively intervene and participate in it. In close, contextualized analysis of more than twenty-five films spanning Herzog's career, Ames makes a case for exploring documentary films in terms of performance and explains what it means to do so. Thus his book expands the field of cinema studies even as it offers an invaluable new perspective on a little studied but integral part of Werner Herzog's extraordinary oeuvre.

目次

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 Soufriere 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 Verite Encounters at the End of the World The Cave of Forgotten Dreams Notes Index

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  • Visible evidence

    edited by Michael Renov, Faye Ginsburg, and Jane Gaines

    University of Minnesota Press

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