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Forgotten Dreams - Revisiting Romanticism in the Cinema of Werner Herzog (Paperback)
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Forgotten Dreams - Revisiting Romanticism in the Cinema of Werner Herzog (Paperback)
Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
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Offers not only an analytical study of the films of Herzog, perhaps
the most famous living German filmmaker, but also a new reading of
Romanticism's impact beyond the nineteenth century and in the
present. Werner Herzog (b. 1942) is perhaps the most famous living
German filmmaker, but his films have never been read in the context
of German cultural history. And while there is a surfeit of film
reviews, interviews, and scholarly articles on Herzog and his work,
there are very few books devoted to his films, and none addressing
his entire career to date. Until now. Forgotten Dreams offers not
only an analytical study of Herzog's films but also a new reading
of Romanticism's impact beyond the nineteenth century. It argues
that his films re-envision and help us better understand a critical
stream in Romanticism, and places the films in conversation with
other filmmakers, authors, and philosophers in order to illuminate
that critical stream. The result is a lively reconnection with
Romantic themes and convictions that have been partly forgotten in
the midst of Germany's postwar rejection of much of Romantic
thought, yet are still operative in German culture today. The film
analyses will interest scholars of film, German Studies, and
Romanticism as well as a broader public interested in Herzog's
films and contemporary German cultural debates. The book will also
appeal to those interested in the ongoing renegotiation - by
Western and other cultures - of relationships between reason and
passion, civilization and wild nature, knowledge and belief. Laurie
Ruth Johnson is Professor of German, Comparative and World
Literature, and Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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