{"product_id":"ferocious-reality-documentary-according-to-werner-herzog-paperback","title":"Ferocious Reality: Documentary according to Werner Herzog - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Ames\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of his career Werner Herzog, known for such visionary masterpieces as \u003ci\u003eAguirre: The Wrath of God\u003c\/i\u003e (1972) and \u003ci\u003eThe Enigma of Kaspar Hauser\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\" \u003ci\u003eFerocious Reality\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHerzog, whose \u003ci\u003eCave of Forgotten Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLessons of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) and \u003ci\u003eGrizzly Man\u003c\/i\u003e (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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Ames is associate professor of German and a member of the cinema studies faculty at the University of Washington. He is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eGermany's Colonial Pasts \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eCarl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 17, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757864714528,"sku":"9780816677641","price":50.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fd0fcccfda306cad2a944c5396af3159.webp?v=1780113457","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ferocious-reality-documentary-according-to-werner-herzog-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}