Werner Herzog
Biographic Data
| ID | 9177908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Werner Herzog |
| GIVEN NAMES | Werner |
| FAMILY NAME | Herzog |
| SIGNATURE | HERZOG W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Act of Killing
Herzog on Herzog
Most of what we've heard about Werner Herzog is untrue. sheer number of false rumours and downright lies disseminated about the man and his films is truly astonishing. Yet Herzog's body of work is one of the most important in post-war European cinema. His international breakthrough came in 1973 with Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in which Klaus Kinski played a crazed Conquistador. For The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Herzog cast in the lead a man who had…
The Films of Werner Herzog
Given Herzog’s own pronouncement that ‘film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates,’ it is not surprising that his work has aroused ambivalent and contradictory responses. Visually and philosophically ambitious and at the same time provocatively eccentric, Herzog’s films have been greeted equally by extreme adulation and extreme condemnation. Even as Herzog’s rebellious images have gained him a reputation as a master of the German New Wav…
No prominent works on this page.
The Films of Werner Herzog
Given Herzog’s own pronouncement that ‘film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates,’ it is not surprising that his work has aroused ambivalent and contradictory responses. Visually and philosophically ambitious and at the same time provocatively eccentric, Herzog’s films have been greeted equally by extreme adulation and extreme condemnation. Even as Herzog’s rebellious images have gained him a reputation as a master of the German New Wav…
Herzog on Herzog
Most of what we've heard about Werner Herzog is untrue. sheer number of false rumours and downright lies disseminated about the man and his films is truly astonishing. Yet Herzog's body of work is one of the most important in post-war European cinema. His international breakthrough came in 1973 with Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in which Klaus Kinski played a crazed Conquistador. For The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Herzog cast in the lead a man who had…
The Act of Killing
Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · European history and politics (1 work) · Film director (1 work) · Films (1 work) · Genius (1 work)