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Ferocious Reality - Documentary according to Werner Herzog (Paperback)
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Ferocious Reality - Documentary according to Werner Herzog (Paperback)
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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.
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