A look at the illustrious director's paradoxical relationship with documentary. Werner Herzog has directed almost sixty films, roughly half of which are documentaries. And yet, 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816677646
ISBN-13
9780816677641
eBay Product ID (ePID)
129037418
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ferocious Reality: Documentary According to Werner Herzog
Author
Eric Ames
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Film, TV & Radio, Electronics
Publication Year
2012
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Eric Ames
Series Title
Visible Evidence
Content Note
50 B/w Illustrations
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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