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Book SynopsisA 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.
Table of ContentsNotes 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
