A Companion to Werner Herzog

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Brad Prager
John Wiley & Sons, Mar 30, 2012 - Performing Arts - 648 pages
A Companion to Werner Herzog showcases over two dozen original scholarly essays examining nearly five decades of filmmaking by one of the most acclaimed and innovative figures in world cinema.

  • First collection in twenty years dedicated to examining Herzog’s expansive career
  • Features essays by international scholars and Herzog specialists
  • Addresses a broad spectrum of the director’s films, from his earliest works such as Signs of Life and Fata Morgana to such recent films as The Bad Lieutenant and Encounters at the End of the World
  • Offers creative, innovative approaches guided by film history, art history, and philosophy
  • Includes a comprehensive filmography that also features a list of the director’s acting appearances and opera productions
  • Explores the director’s engagement with music and the arts, his self-stylization as a global filmmaker, his Bavarian origins, and even his love-hate relationship with the actor Klaus Kinski
 

Selected pages

Contents

Critical Approaches and Contexts 33
35
Werner Herzog in the Light of the New Waves
58
On Experience
80
Herzog and the Interarts
99
Herzog and Photography
127
Werner Herzog and Opera
149
The Viewer and Herzogs Sonic Worlds
168
Herzogs German Encounters
231
The Fiendship of Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog
301
Herzogs FarFlung Cinema
327
Werner
356
The Changing Course
371
ReOpened
393
Werner Herzogs American TV Documentaries
416
Herzogs Chickenshit
445
Encountering Werner Herzog at the End of the World
466

Herzogs Heart of Glass and the Sublime of Raw Materials
256
Embodied Vision
281
The Philosophical Purposiveness
566
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About the author (2012)

Brad Prager is Associate Professor of German and an active member of the Program in Film Studies at the University of Missouri. He has authored two monographs: Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (2007) and The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (2007). His articles have appeared in New German Critique, Studies in Documentary Film, Art History, and in the Modern Language Review. Most recently he has co-edited the collections The Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (2010) and Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory (2008).

Bibliographic information

TitleA Companion to Werner Herzog
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
EditorBrad Prager
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2012
ISBN1444361406, 9781444361407
Length648 pages
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Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Photography / Techniques / Cinematography & Videography
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