Companion to Werner Herzog

Brad Prager is Associate Professor of German and an active member of the Program in Film Studies at the University of Missouri. He has authored two monographs: Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (2007) and The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (2007). His articles have appeared in New German Critique, Studies in Documentary Film, Art History, and in the Modern Language Review. Most recently he has co-edited the collections The Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (2010) and Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory (2008).

• Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xivWerner Herzog’s Companions: The Consolation of Images 1Brad PragerPart I Critical Approaches and Contexts 331 Herzog and Auteurism: Performing Authenticity 35Brigitte Peucker2 Physicality, Difference, and the Challenge of Representation: Werner Herzog in the Light of the New Waves 58Lúcia Nagib3 The Pedestrian Ecstasies of Werner Herzog: On Experience, Intelligence, and the Essayistic 80Timothy CorriganPart II Herzog and the Inter-arts 994 Werner Herzog’s View of Delft: Or, Nosferatu and the Still Life 101Kenneth S. Calhoon5 Moving Stills: Herzog and Photography 127Stefanie Harris6 Archetypes of Emotion: Werner Herzog and Opera 149Lutz Koepnick7 Coming to Our Senses: The Viewer and Herzog’s Sonic Worlds 168Roger Hillman8 Death for Five Voices : Gesualdo’s “Poetic Truth” 187Holly Rogers9 Demythologization and Convergence: Herzog’s Late Genre Pictures and the Rogue Cop Film in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call—New Orleans 208Jaimey FisherPart III Herzog’s German Encounters 23110 “I don’t like the Germans”: Even Herzog Started in Bavaria 233Chris Wahl11 Herzog’s Heart of Glass and the Sublime of Raw Materials 256Noah Heringman12 The Ironic Ecstasy of Werner Herzog: Embodied Vision in The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 281Roger F. Cook13 Tantrum Love: The Fiendship of Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog 301Lance DuerfahrdPart IV Herzog’s Far-Flung Cinema Africa, Australia, the Americas, and Beyond 32714 Werner Herzog’s African Sublime 329Erica Carter15 Didgeridoo, or the Search for the Origin of the Self: Werner Herzog’s Where the Green Ants Dream and Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines 356Manuel Köppen16 A March into Nothingness: The Changing Course of Herzog’s Indian Images 371Will Lehman17 The Case of Herzog: Re-Opened 393Eric Ames18 The Veil Between: Werner Herzog’s American TV Documentaries 416John E. Davidson19 Herzog’s Chickenshit 445Rembert Hüser20 Encountering Werner Herzog at the End of the World 466Reinhild SteingröverPart V Toward the Limits of Experience Philosophical Approaches 48521 Perceiving the Other in the Land of Silence and Darkness 487Randall Halle22 Werner Herzog’s Romantic Spaces 510Laurie Johnson23 The Melancholy Observer: Landscape, Neo-Romanticism, and the Politics of Documentary Filmmaking 528Matthew Gandy24 Portrait of the Chimpanzee as a Metaphysician: Parody and Dehumanization in Echoes from a Somber Empire 547Guido Vitiello25 Herzog and Human Destiny: The Philosophical Purposiveness of the Filmmaker 566Alan SingerFilmography 587Compiled by Chris WahlIndex 611