Brad Prager is Associate Professor of German and an active member of the Program in Film Studies at the University of Missouri. He has authored two monographs: Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (2007) and The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (2007). His articles have appeared in New German Critique, Studies in Documentary Film, Art History, and in the Modern Language Review. Most recently he has co-edited the collections The Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (2010) and Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory (2008).

• Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xivWerner Herzog’s Companions: The Consolation of Images 1Brad PragerPart I Critical Approaches and Contexts 331 Herzog and Auteurism: Performing Authenticity 35Brigitte Peucker2 Physicality, Difference, and the Challenge of Representation: Werner Herzog in the Light of the New Waves 58Lúcia Nagib3 The Pedestrian Ecstasies of Werner Herzog: On Experience, Intelligence, and the Essayistic 80Timothy CorriganPart II Herzog and the Inter-arts 994 Werner Herzog’s View of Delft: Or, Nosferatu and the Still Life 101Kenneth S. Calhoon5 Moving Stills: Herzog and Photography 127Stefanie Harris6 Archetypes of Emotion: Werner Herzog and Opera 149Lutz Koepnick7 Coming to Our Senses: The Viewer and Herzog’s Sonic Worlds 168Roger Hillman8 Death for Five Voices : Gesualdo’s “Poetic Truth” 187Holly Rogers9 Demythologization and Convergence: Herzog’s Late Genre Pictures and the Rogue Cop Film in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call—New Orleans 208Jaimey FisherPart III Herzog’s German Encounters 23110 “I don’t like the Germans”: Even Herzog Started in Bavaria 233Chris Wahl11 Herzog’s Heart of Glass and the Sublime of Raw Materials 256Noah Heringman12 The Ironic Ecstasy of Werner Herzog: Embodied Vision in The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 281Roger F. Cook13 Tantrum Love: The Fiendship of Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog 301Lance DuerfahrdPart IV Herzog’s Far-Flung Cinema Africa, Australia, the Americas, and Beyond 32714 Werner Herzog’s African Sublime 329Erica Carter15 Didgeridoo, or the Search for the Origin of the Self: Werner Herzog’s Where the Green Ants Dream and Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines 356Manuel Köppen16 A March into Nothingness: The Changing Course of Herzog’s Indian Images 371Will Lehman17 The Case of Herzog: Re-Opened 393Eric Ames18 The Veil Between: Werner Herzog’s American TV Documentaries 416John E. Davidson19 Herzog’s Chickenshit 445Rembert Hüser20 Encountering Werner Herzog at the End of the World 466Reinhild SteingröverPart V Toward the Limits of Experience Philosophical Approaches 48521 Perceiving the Other in the Land of Silence and Darkness 487Randall Halle22 Werner Herzog’s Romantic Spaces 510Laurie Johnson23 The Melancholy Observer: Landscape, Neo-Romanticism, and the Politics of Documentary Filmmaking 528Matthew Gandy24 Portrait of the Chimpanzee as a Metaphysician: Parody and Dehumanization in Echoes from a Somber Empire 547Guido Vitiello25 Herzog and Human Destiny: The Philosophical Purposiveness of the Filmmaker 566Alan SingerFilmography 587Compiled by Chris WahlIndex 611

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