The Romantic Cinema of Werner Herzog: approaches between German Romanticism and the Concept of Ecstatic Truth

Authors

  • Jéssica Pereira Frazão Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
  • Regiane Regina Ribeiro Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19132/1807-8583202048.246-263

Keywords:

German Romanticism. Ecstatic Truth. Werner Herzog. Cinema.

Abstract

This article explores the similarities between the intellectual movement German Romanticism and Werner Herzog’s concept of Ecstatic Truth. We seek to single out, in the filmmaker’s cinema, propositions of a romantic-influenced aesthetics. As methodology, we use direct sources related to the approach of “Theory of Filmmakers”. In other words, besides film fragments, we also turned to interviews and declarations by Werner Herzog about the making of his films as a creation process. The main similarities found from this comparison were: (1) an inherently romantic tendency towards escapism, present among Herzog’s characters; (2) nature seen as the only option left, and (3) moments filled with the sensation of fear, shiver and paralysis.

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Author Biographies

Jéssica Pereira Frazão, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Doutoranda pelo Programa de Pós Graduação em Meios e Processos Audiovisuais da Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo (ECA/USP), Mestre em Comunicação pela Universidade Federal do Paraná (PPGCOM/UFPR) e Graduada em Produção Audiovisual pela Universidade do Vale do Itajaí (UNIVALI). É membro da SOCINE - Sociedade brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual e do Elviras - Coletivo de Mulheres Críticas de Cinema.

Regiane Regina Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Doutora em Comunicação e Semiótica pela PUC - SP. Mestre em Comunicação e Semiótica pela PUC - SP. Graduada em Comunicação Social. Líder do grupo de Pesquisa NEFICS - Núcleo de Estudos em Ficção Seriada. Professora adjunta da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) e Professora Permanente do Mestrado em Comunicação na linha de pesquisa Comunicação e Formações Sócio-Culturais.

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Published

2020-01-01

How to Cite

Frazão, J. P., and R. R. Ribeiro. “The Romantic Cinema of Werner Herzog: Approaches Between German Romanticism and the Concept of Ecstatic Truth”. Intexto, no. 48, Jan. 2020, pp. 246-63, doi:10.19132/1807-8583202048.246-263.

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Dossiê Teoria dos cineastas