Fitzcarraldo by Lutz Koepnick - 9781640140363

FitzcarraldoAuthor(s): Lutz Koepnick\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781640140363, 978-1640140363\nSynopsis\nRevisits Herzog's classic film from a decisively contemporary standpoint, bringing into play the development of his filmmaking career.\n\nWhen it was released in 1982, Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo was widely criticized for its demanding use of human and natural resources as well as its director's uncompromising aesthetic vision. Critics and scholars saw little difference between the film's protagonist's obsession with hauling a ship over a mountain in the Amazon and Herzog's own mode of cinematic production and storytelling. And yet Fitzcarraldo stands out as one of the defining moments of New German Cinema and, as the years pass, continues to raise new questions about the relation of film and society, art and nature, progress and subjectivity, the known and the unknown. This book revisits Herzog's ta.