Ferocious Reality: Documentary according to Werner Herzog (Visible Evidence)
"Werner Herzog has long avowed that he hates documentaries and does not participate in the tradition. Eric Ames’s wonderful book lets us in on an open secret: ‘Herzog has. . . added to the vitality and visibility of documentary cinema internationally for more than four decades.’ I would go further: the best of the films that Herzog has made over his long career have been those that, if not called documentaries, cannot be labeled fictions. Werner Herzog’s challenges to the documentary tradition have inevitably become part of that tradition. This book shows us how." —Linda Williams, University of California, Berkeley"Ferocious Realityis excellent. The book centers on how Herzog  consistently undertakes an exploration of the limits of documentary  cinema and engages with it as performative behavior, challenging its  boundaries. Eric Ames analyzes a broad range of Herzog’s films and  engages with an array of important theoreticians of documentary cinema.  This book is first-rate and innovative." —Brad Prager, author ofThe Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth