WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors : Companion to Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog's Companions: The Consolation of Images Brad Prager -- Part I Critical Approaches and Contexts. 1 Herzog and Auteurism: Performing Authenticity / Brigitte Peucker -- 2 Physicality, Difference, and the Challenge of Representation: Werner Herzog in the Light of the New Waves / Lu︠cia Nagib -- 3 The Pedestrian Ecstasies of Werner Herzog: On Experience, Intelligence, and the Essayistic / Timothy Corrigan.;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. Werner Herzog's Companions: The Consolation of Images Brad Prager -- Part I Critical Approaches and Contexts. 1 Herzog and Auteurism: Performing Authenticity / Brigitte Peucker -- 2 Physicality, Difference, and the Challenge of Representation: Werner Herzog in the Light of the New Waves / Lu︠cia Nagib -- 3 The Pedestrian Ecstasies of Werner Herzog: On Experience, Intelligence, and the Essayistic / Timothy Corrigan. Part II Herzog and the Inter-arts. 4 Werner Herzog's View of Delft: Or, Nosferatu and the Still Life / Kenneth S. Calhoon -- 5 Moving Stills: Herzog and Photography / Stefanie Harris -- 6 Archetypes of Emotion: Werner Herzog and Opera / Lutz Koepnick -- 7 Coming to Our Senses: The Viewer and Herzog's Sonic Worlds / Roger Hillman -- 8 Death for Five Voices: Gesualdo's "Poetic Truth" / Holly Rogers -- 9 Demythologization and Convergence: Herzog's Late Genre Pictures and the Rogue Cop Film in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call -- New Orleans / Jaimey Fisher. Part III Herzog's German Encounters. 10 "I don't like the Germans": Even Herzog Started in Bavaria / Chris Wahl -- 11 Herzog's Heart of Glass and the Sublime of Raw Materials / Noah Heringman -- 12 The Ironic Ecstasy of Werner Herzog: Embodied Vision in The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver / Steiner Roger F. Cook -- 13 Tantrum Love: The Fiendship of Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog / Lance Duerfahrd. Part IV Herzog's Far-Flung Cinema: Africa, Australia, the Americas, and Beyond. 14 Werner Herzog's African Sublime / 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 / Manuel Köppen -- 16 A March into Nothingness: The Changing Course of Herzog's Indian Images / Will Lehman -- 17 The Case of Herzog: Re-Opened / Eric Ames -- 18 The Veil Between: Werner Herzog's American TV Documentaries / John E. Davidson -- 19 Herzog's Chickenshit / Rembert Hüser -- 20 Encountering Werner Herzog at the End of the World / Reinhild Steingröver. Part V Toward the Limits of Experience: Philosophical Approaches. 21 Perceiving the Other in the Land of Silence and Darkness / Randall Halle -- 22 Werner Herzog's Romantic Spaces / Laurie Johnson -- 23 The Melancholy Observer: Landscape, Neo-Romanticism, and the Politics of Documentary Filmmaking / Matthew Gandy -- 24 Portrait of the Chimpanzee as a Metaphysician: Parody and Dehumanization in Echoes from a Somber Empire / Guido Vitiello -- 25 Herzog and Human Destiny: The Philosophical Purposiveness of the Filmmaker / Alan Singer. A Companion to Werner Herzog 5 Contents 7 Notes on Contributors 10 Acknowledgments 16 Werner Herzog’s Companions: The Consolation of Images 17 Part I Critical Approaches and Contexts 49 1 Herzog and Auteurism: Performing Authenticity 51 2 Physicality, Difference, and the Challenge of Representation: Werner Herzog in the Light of the New Waves 74 3 The Pedestrian Ecstasies of Werner Herzog: On Experience, Intelligence, and the Essayistic 96 Part II Herzog and the Inter-arts 115 4 Werner Herzog’s View of Delft: Or, Nosferatu and the Still Life 117 5 Moving Stills: Herzog and Photography 143 6 Archetypes of Emotion: Werner Herzog and Opera 165 7 Coming to Our Senses: The Viewer and Herzog’s Sonic Worlds 184 8 Death for Five Voices: Gesualdo’s “Poetic Truth” 203 9 Demythologization and Convergence: Herzog’s Late Genre Pictures and the Rogue Cop Film in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call—New Orleans 224 Part III Herzog’s German Encounters 247 10 “I don’t like the Germans”: Even Herzog Started in Bavaria 249 11 Herzog’s Heart of Glass and the Sublime of Raw Materials 272 12 The Ironic Ecstasy of Werner Herzog: Embodied Vision in The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 297 13 Tantrum Love: The Fiendship of Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog 317 Part IV Herzog’s Far-Flung Cinema Africa, Australia, the Americas, and Beyond 343 14 Werner Herzog’s African Sublime 345 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 372 16 A March into Nothingness: The Changing Course of Herzog’s Indian Images 387 17 The Case of Herzog: Re-Opened 409 18 The Veil Between: Werner Herzog’s American TV Documentaries 432 19 Herzog’s Chickenshit 461 20 Encountering Werner Herzog at the End of the World 482 Part V Toward the Limits of Experience Philosophical Approaches 501 21 Perceiving the Other in the Land of Silence and Darkness 503 22 Werner Herzog’s Romantic Spaces 526 23 The Melancholy Observer: Landscape, Neo-Romanticism, and the Politics of Documentary Filmmaking 544 24 Portrait of the Chimpanzee as a Metaphysician: Parody and Dehumanization in Echoes from a Somber Empire 563 25 Herzog and Human Destiny: The Philosophical Purposiveness of the Filmmaker 582 Filmography 603 Index 627 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

°°° Werner Herzog was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written, & directed more than 60 feature & documentary films, including Aguirre, Nosferatu, Fitzcarraldo, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, My Best Fiend, Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World, & Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Herzog has published more than a dozen books of poetry & prose, most recently The Twilight World, & directed as many operas. He has appeared as an actor in Jack Reacher, The Mandalorian, & The Simpsons, & exhibited an art installation, Hearsay of the Soul, at the 2012 Whitney Biennale & the Getty Museum. He also founded his own Rogue Film School as a counterpoint to what is taught in most film schools around the world. A Companion to Werner Herzog represents more than two dozen original scholarly essays examining five decades of cinematic contributions by one of the world s most acclaimed and innovative filmmakers.