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Philosophy of Werner Herzog

Philosophy of Werner Herzog

Baumann, Stefanie
Wilson, M. Blake
Turner, Christopher

Hardcover

Series: Philosophy of Popular Culture

PhilosophyFilm & Video Art

ISBN10: 1793600422
ISBN13: 9781793600424
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Nov 25 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Legendary director, actor, author, and provocateur Werner Herzog has incalculably influenced contemporary cinema for decades. Until now there has been no sustained effort to gather and present a variety of diverse philosophical approaches to his films and to the thinking behind their creation. The Philosophy of Werner Herzog, edited by M. Blake Wilson and Christopher Turner, collects fourteen essays by professional philosophers and film theorists from around the globe, who explore the famed German auteur's notions of ecstatic truth as opposed to accountants' truth, his conception of nature and its penchant for overwhelming and collective murder, his controversial film production techniques, his debts to his philosophical and aesthetic forebears, and finally, his pointed objections to his would-be critics--including, among others, the contributors to this book themselves. By probing how Herzog's thinking behind the camera is revealed in the action he captures in front of it, The Philosophy of Werner Herzog shines new light upon the images and dialog we see and hear on the screen by enriching our appreciation of a prolific--yet enigmatic--film artist.

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