Ferocious reality : documentary according to Werner Herzog / Eric Ames.
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 199...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | Visible evidence ;
v. 27. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 334 pages : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0816677638 9780816677634 0816677646 9780816677641 |