ヘルツォーク必携 A Companion to Werner Herzog (Wiley-blackwell Companions to Film Directors)

Prager, Brad (EDT)

Blackwell Pub（2012/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 629 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781405194402
• DDC分類 791.43023092

基本説明

A Companion to Werner Herzog showcases over two dozen original scholarly essays examining nearly five decades of filmmaking by one of the most acclaimed and innovative figures in world cinema.

Full Description

A Companion to Werner Herzog showcases over two dozen original scholarly essays examining nearly five decades of filmmaking by one of the most acclaimed and innovative figures in world cinema.



First collection in twenty years dedicated to examining Herzog's expansive career
Features essays by international scholars and Herzog specialists
Addresses a broad spectrum of the director's films, from his earliest works such as Signs of Life and Fata Morgana to such recent films as The Bad Lieutenant and Encounters at the End of the World
Offers creative, innovative approaches guided by film history, art history, and philosophy
Includes a comprehensive filmography that also features a list of the director's acting appearances and opera productions
Explores the director's engagement with music and the arts, his self-stylization as a global filmmaker, his Bavarian origins, and even his love-hate relationship with the actor Klaus Kinski

Contents

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiv

Werner Herzog's Companions: The Consolation of Images 1
Brad Prager

Part I Critical Approaches and Contexts 33

1 Herzog and Auteurism: Performing Authenticity 35
Brigitte Peucker

2 Physicality, Difference, and the Challenge of Representation: Werner Herzog in the Light of the New Waves 58
Lúcia Nagib

3 The Pedestrian Ecstasies of Werner Herzog: On Experience, Intelligence, and the Essayistic 80
Timothy Corrigan

Part II Herzog and the Inter-arts 99

4 Werner Herzog's View of Delft: Or, Nosferatu and the Still Life 101
Kenneth S. Calhoon

5 Moving Stills: Herzog and Photography 127
Stefanie Harris

6 Archetypes of Emotion: Werner Herzog and Opera 149
Lutz Koepnick

7 Coming to Our Senses: The Viewer and Herzog's Sonic Worlds 168
Roger Hillman

8 Death for Five Voices : Gesualdo's "Poetic Truth" 187
Holly Rogers

9 Demythologization and Convergence: Herzog's Late Genre Pictures and the Rogue Cop Film in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call—New Orleans 208
Jaimey Fisher

Part III Herzog's German Encounters 231

10 "I don't like the Germans": Even Herzog Started in Bavaria 233
Chris Wahl

11 Herzog's Heart of Glass and the Sublime of Raw Materials 256
Noah Heringman

12 The Ironic Ecstasy of Werner Herzog: Embodied Vision in The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 281
Roger F. Cook

13 Tantrum Love: The Fiendship of Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog 301
Lance Duerfahrd

Part IV Herzog's Far-Flung Cinema Africa, Australia, the Americas, and Beyond 327

14 Werner Herzog's African Sublime 329
Erica Carter

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 356
Manuel Köppen

16 A March into Nothingness: The Changing Course of Herzog's Indian Images 371
Will Lehman

17 The Case of Herzog: Re-Opened 393
Eric Ames

18 The Veil Between: Werner Herzog's American TV Documentaries 416
John E. Davidson

19 Herzog's Chickenshit 445
Rembert Hüser

20 Encountering Werner Herzog at the End of the World 466
Reinhild Steingröver

Part V Toward the Limits of Experience Philosophical Approaches 485

21 Perceiving the Other in the Land of Silence and Darkness 487
Randall Halle

22 Werner Herzog's Romantic Spaces 510
Laurie Johnson

23 The Melancholy Observer: Landscape, Neo-Romanticism, and the Politics of Documentary Filmmaking 528
Matthew Gandy

24 Portrait of the Chimpanzee as a Metaphysician: Parody and Dehumanization in Echoes from a Somber Empire 547
Guido Vitiello

25 Herzog and Human Destiny: The Philosophical Purposiveness of the Filmmaker 566
Alan Singer

Filmography 587
Compiled by Chris Wahl

Index 611