Book - Ferocious Reality: Documentary according to Werner Herzog
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From: Dylan Hester <[email protected]> A look at the illustrious director’s paradoxical relationship with documentary FEROCIOUS REALITY: Documentary according to Werner Herzog By Eric Ames University of Minnesota Press | 352 pages | 2012 ISBN 978-0-8166-7764-1 | paperback | $25.00 ISBN 978-0-8166-7763-4 | cloth | $75.00 Series: Visible Evidence, vol. 27 In close, contextualized analysis of more than twenty-five films spanning Werner Herzog’s career, Eric Ames makes a case for exploring documentary films in terms of performance and explains what it means to do so. Ferocious Reality expands the field of cinema studies as it offers an invaluable new perspective on a little studied but integral part of Werner Herzog’s oeuvre. PRAISE FOR FEROCIOUS REALITY: "Werner Herzog has long avowed that he hates documentaries and does not participate in the tradition. Eric Ames’s wonderful book lets us in on an open secret: ‘Herzog has. . . added to the vitality and visibility of documentary cinema internationally for more than four decades.’ I would go further: the best of the films that Herzog has made over his long career have been those that, if not called documentaries, cannot be labeled fictions. Werner Herzog’s challenges to the documentary tradition have inevitably become part of that tradition. This book shows us how." —Linda Williams, University of California, Berkeley "Ferocious Reality is excellent. The book centers on how Herzog consistently undertakes an exploration of the limits of documentary cinema and engages with it as performative behavior, challenging its boundaries. Eric Ames analyzes a broad range of Herzog’s films and engages with an array of important theoreticians of documentary cinema. This book is first-rate and innovative." —Brad Prager, author of The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Eric Ames is associate professor of German and a member of the cinema studies faculty at the University of Washington. He is coeditor of Germany’s Colonial Pasts and author of Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/ferocious-reality http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/visible-evidence Please email me if you have any questions. Anne Wrenn University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 [email protected]