Werner Herzog / Rogue Filmmaker - Softcover

LaRocca, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1942782721 ISBN 13: 9781942782728

Publisher: Sticking Place Books, 2024

Synopsis

In Werner Herzog / Rogue Filmmaker, David LaRocca draws from a fan's resolute passion for his subject to face head-on vexing Herzogian notions such as ecstatic truth, the sublime, and the beguiling spirit that animates the fittingly titled Rogue Film School, which the author attended. In our distracted, dissipating times, Herzog is an icon of penetrating acuity, vigorous resolve, poetic straight-talk, and provocative medial experiments--someone with the mettle to mount visionary adventures: shouldered, provisional, failed, recuperated. In these pages, LaRocca follows the more than half-century-long footpath by which Herzog became his own genre: with fabricated films of daring, life-lived-at-the-limits intensity; artful literary innovations; and a persistently roving persona. Marshaling the awe suited to philosophical investigations, LaRocca tracks the study of Herzog from first forays to the fraught present moment, including critical dispatches on autobiography, parody, and artificial intelligence. As with any Herzogian enterprise, this one isn't for the faint of heart.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sticking Place Books
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1942782721
• ISBN 13: 9781942782728
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384