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    • Publisher:
      Boydell & Brewer
      Publication date:
      07 May 2021
      01 February 2016
      ISBN:
      9781782046905
      9781571139115
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781782046905
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      Literature, Film, Area Studies, European Literature, Film, Media, Mass Communication, European Studies
      Series:
      Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
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    Literature, Film, Area Studies, European Literature, Film, Media, Mass Communication, European Studies
    Series:
    Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
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    Werner Herzog (b. 1942) is perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but his films have never been read in the context of German cultural history. And while there is a surfeit of film reviews,interviews, and scholarly articles on Herzog and his work, there are very few books devoted to his films, and none addressing his entire career to date. Until now.
    Forgotten Dreams offersnot only an analytical study of Herzog's films but also a new reading of Romanticism's impact beyond the nineteenth century. It argues that his films re-envision and help us better understand a critical stream in Romanticism, and places the films in conversation with other filmmakers, authors, and philosophers in order to illuminate that critical stream. The result is a lively reconnection with Romantic themes and convictions that have been partly forgotten in the midst of Germany's postwar rejection of much of Romantic thought, yet are still operative in German culture today. The film analyses will interest scholars of film, German Studies, and Romanticism as well as a broader public interested in Herzog's films and contemporary German cultural debates. The book will also appeal to thoseinterested in the ongoing renegotiation - by Western and other cultures - of relationships between reason and passion, civilization and wild nature, knowledge and belief.

    Laurie Ruth Johnson is Associate Professor of German, Comparative and World Literature, and Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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