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245 10 a| Werner Herzogh| [electronic resource] /c| Joshua Lund.;

260 a| Urbana :b| University of Illinois Press,c| [2020];

300 a| xii, 270 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 22 cm.;

490 0 a| Contemporary film directors;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

504 a| Includes filmography.;

505 0 a| American nomadic. Introduction -- The small voice of conquest -- Frontier thesis -- "I'm planning something geographical--" -- Black god, white devil -- Late work -- Interview with Werner Herzog.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "Werner Herzog's protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition. Though Herzog takes his topics from around the world, the Americas have provided the setting and subject matter for iconic works ranging from Aquirre, The Wrath of God, and Fitzcarraldo to Grizzly Man. Joshua Lund offers the first systematic interpretation of Werner Herzog's Americas-themed works, illuminating the director's career as a political filmmaker-a label Herzog himself rejects. Lund draws on materialist and post-colonial approaches to argue that Herzog's American work confronts us with the circulation, distribution, accumulation, application, and negotiation of power that resides, quietly, at the center of his films. By operating beyond conventional ideological categories, Herzog renders political ideas in radically unfamiliar ways while fearlessly confronting his viewers with questions of world-historical significance. His maddeningly opaque viewpoint challenges us to rethink discovery and conquest, migration and exploitation, resource extraction, slavery, and other foundational traumas of the contemporary human condition"--c| Provided by publisher.;

538 a| Mode of access: World Wide Web;

600 10 a| Herzog, Werner,d| 1942-x| Criticism and interpretation.=| ^A124825;

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Werner Herzog / Joshua Lund.

Author/creator	Lund, Joshua, 1969-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Description	xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Herzog, Werner, 1942---Criticism and interpretation.

Series	Contemporary film directors
Contents	American nomadic. Introduction -- The small voice of conquest -- Frontier thesis -- "I'm planning something geographical--" -- Black god, white devil -- Late work -- Interview with Werner Herzog.
Abstract	"Werner Herzog's protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition. Though Herzog takes his topics from around the world, the Americas have provided the setting and subject matter for iconic works ranging from Aquirre, The Wrath of God, and Fitzcarraldo to Grizzly Man. Joshua Lund offers the first systematic interpretation of Werner Herzog's Americas-themed works, illuminating the director's career as a political filmmaker-a label Herzog himself rejects. Lund draws on materialist and post-colonial approaches to argue that Herzog's American work confronts us with the circulation, distribution, accumulation, application, and negotiation of power that resides, quietly, at the center of his films. By operating beyond conventional ideological categories, Herzog renders political ideas in radically unfamiliar ways while fearlessly confronting his viewers with questions of world-historical significance. His maddeningly opaque viewpoint challenges us to rethink discovery and conquest, migration and exploitation, resource extraction, slavery, and other foundational traumas of the contemporary human condition"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bibliography note	Includes filmography.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2020001582
ISBN	9780252043178 (cloth)
ISBN	9780252085048 (paperback)
ISBN	(ebook)

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