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The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History book cover

1st Edition

The Films of Werner Herzog Between Mirage and History

Edited By Timothy Corrigan Copyright 1986
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge
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Given Herzog’s own pronouncement that ‘film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates,’ it is not surprising that his work has aroused ambivalent and contradictory responses. Visually and philosophically ambitious and at the same time provocatively eccentric, Herzog’s films have been greeted equally by extreme adulation and extreme condemnation. Even as Herzog’s rebellious images have... Read more

Part 1: Introduction  1. Producing Herzog: From a Body of Images Timothy Corrigan  Part 2: Promotion as Self-Portrait  2. W.H. or the Mysteries of Walking on Ice Jan-Christopher Horak  Part 3: Readings  3. On Seeing a Mirage Amos Vogel  4. Last Words: Observations on a New Language William Van Wert  5. Blindness as Insight: Visions of the Unseen in Land of Silence and Darkness Gertrud Koch  6. The Cosmos and its Discontents Dana Benelli  7. Literature and Writing in the Films of Werner Herzog Brigitte Peucker  8. Herzog, Murnau and the Vampire Judith Mayne  9. An Anthropologist’s Eye: Where the Green Ants Dream Thomas Elsaessar  Part 4: Arguments  10. The Politics of Vision: Herzog’s Heart of Glass Eric Rentschler  11. Comprehending Appearances: Werner Herzog’s Ironic Sublime Alan Singer  Part 5: Documenting Herzog: A Filmography and Selected Bibliography

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Edited by Corrigan, Timothy

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