A Companion to Werner Herzog

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A Companion to Werner Herzog

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• A Companion to Werner Herzog

Publication

• Hoboken, John Wiley & Sons, 2012

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15: Didgeridoo, or the Search for the Origin of the Self: Werner Herzog's Where the Green Ants Dream and Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines

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Contents

• Cover; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Werner Herzog's Companions: The Consolation of Images; New Images; Herzog's Writing; Cinematic Companions; American Independence; Part I: Critical Approaches and Contexts; 1: Herzog and Auteurism: Performing Authenticity; Authenticity: Ecstatic Truth and Physical Investment; Theatricality and Identity; Self-parody; 2: Physicality, Difference, and the Challenge of Representation: Werner Herzog in the Light of the New Waves; Physical Difference; Trance; Presentational and Representational Real
• 3: The Pedestrian Ecstasies of Werner Herzog: On Experience, Intelligence, and the Essayistic; The Essay Film; Herzog's Essays; Part II: Herzog and the Inter-arts; 4: Werner Herzog's View of Delft: Or, Nosferatu and the Still Life; 5: Moving Stills: Herzog and Photography; Photography and Stasis; Photography and Trauma; Photography and Imagination; 6: Archetypes of Emotion: Werner Herzog and Opera; Art and Truth; Opera and the Ethics of Acknowledgment; Catastrophe and Beauty; Opera Time; 7: Coming to Our Senses: The Viewer and Herzog's Sonic Worlds; Soundings; On Wings of Song; Visionary Sound
• Hearing When the Eyes Play Tricks; Speaking in Tongues; Conclusion; 8: Death for Five Voices: Gesualdo's "Poetic Truth"; The Poetic Truth; Musical Performance; "Broken pieces"?; 9: Demythologization and Convergence: Herzog's Late Genre Pictures and the Rogue Cop Film in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call--New Orleans; Herzog and Genre: Generic Demythologization vs. Points of Convergence; The Rogue Cop and the Corrupt City; Bad Cops: Seething Bodies and Misplaced Investitures; Legal-Narrative Iterability and the Degenerating Cop; Herzog's Generic Retreat?; Part III: Herzog's German Encounters
• 10: "I don't like the Germans": Even Herzog Started in Bavaria11: Herzog's Heart of Glass and the Sublime of Raw Materials; Visual Legacies of Nature and Technology; Hearts of Glass; Raw Materials: Between Industry and Alchemy; The Art of Glassmaking; Blood and Soil: History and Apocalypse; Acknowledgments; 12: The Ironic Ecstasy of Werner Herzog: Embodied Vision in The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner; "The best ski flyer of all time": Hyperbolic Filmmaking and Self-Irony; The Ecstasy of Flight; The Aesthetic Ecstasy of the Filmmaker Herzog; The Special Resonance of Herzog's Ecstasy
• 13: Tantrum Love: The Fiendship of Klaus Kinski and Werner HerzogImitation Crab: Aguirre; Free Range Chicken; Acting as Chiropraxis: Woyzeck; Managing Kinski's Posthumous Scream: My Best Fiend; Acting as Prolepsis: Cobra Verde; Part IV: Herzog's Far-Flung Cinema Africa, Australia, the Americas, and Beyond; 14: Werner Herzog's African Sublime; The African Sublime; An African Sublime?; Sublime Terror and the Figure of the Black; Fata Morgana, Mirage, and Montage; The Sublime Other: the African and Herzog's Documentary Look; Conclusion; Acknowledgments

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1 online resource (943 pages)

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9781444361391

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