Films of Werner Herzog - Between Mirage and History

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Part 1: Introduction 1. Producing Herzog: From a Body of Images Part 2: Promotion as Self-Portrait 2. W.H. or the Mysteries of Walking on Ice Part 3: Readings 3. On Seeing a Mirage 4. Last Words: Observations on a New Language 5. Blindness as Insight: Visions of the Unseen in Land of Silence and Darkness 6. The Cosmos and its Discontents 7. Literature and Writing in the Films of Werner Herzog 8. Herzog, Murnau and the Vampire 9. An Anthropologist’s Eye: Where the Green Ants Dream Part 4: Arguments 10. The Politics of Vision: Herzog’s Heart of Glass 11. Comprehending Appearances: Werner Herzog’s Ironic Sublime Part 5: Documenting Herzog: A Filmography and Selected Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Corrigan
• Assisted by: Timothy Corrigan (Editor), Corrigan Timothy (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2013
• EAN: 9780415726788
• ISBN: 978-0-415-72678-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; History, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Films, cinema, Humanities, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Reference