Ebook: The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History

Overview: Given Herzogs 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, Herzogs films have been greeted equally by extreme adulation and extreme condemnation.