Forgotten dreams : revisiting romanticism in the cinema of Werner Herzog /
Werner Herzog (b. 1942) is perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but his films have never been read in the context of German cultural history. And while there is a surfeit of film reviews, interviews, and scholarly articles on Herzog and his work, there are very few books devoted to his f...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House
2016.
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| Col·lecció: | Screen cultures.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt18kr6wj |
Taula de continguts:
- 1. Image and Knowledge
- Ironic Self-Consciousness in Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
- Romantic Melancholy in The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
- Aesthetic Others in Fitzcarraldo (1982)
- Traces of the Magical in Invincible (2000)
- Conclusion
- 2. Surface and Depth
- The Arabesque and the Secret in Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
- Surface and Depth, Secret and Memory in The White Diamond (2004)
- Trauma as Adventure in Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
- Walking as Remembering in Wings of Hope (1999)
- Conclusion
- 3. Beauty and Sublimity
- Sublime Spaces in The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984)
- Human Wrath and Sublime Nature in Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
- Endless Approximation in The Great Ecstasy of Wood-Carver Steiner (1973)
- Sublime Risk in La Soufriere (1977)
- Conclusion
- 4. Man and Animal
- Aesthetic Vision Deferred in Grizzly Man (2005)
- Man and Chicken in Stroszek (1976)
- Monstrous Belief in Nosferatu (1978)
- Conclusion
- 5. Sound and Silence
- Listening in the Silence in Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) and Heart of Glass (1976)
- Sound and Nostalgia in Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
- The Critical Potential of Romantic Melancholy in Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life (2011)
- Conclusion.