Published: 2020-12-31

The power of the film image

dr hab. Ewa Nowina-Sroczyńska, prof. UŁ
Journal of Urban Ethnology
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE18.2020.012

Abstract

The author explains the reasons why she is seeking ethnographic films outside of ethnography. She writes about the role and status of ethnographic film on the basis of three documentary films by Werner Herzog, analyzing them from an anthropological perspective. She traces the director’s postulate concerning the inadequacy of the created images (including film images) to the state of civilization in film exemplifications, focusing on the artist’s epiphanic landscapes and his „mythical consciousness”. The proposal to go beyond the observational film based on a rational paradigm is drawn precisely from the work of the last romantic Master of cinema.

Keywords:

Werner Herzog, epiphany, apocalyptic myths, ethnographic documentary
JUE 18/2020

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Nowina-Sroczyńska, E. (2020). The power of the film image: Herzog and epiphanies. Journal of Urban Ethnology, 18, 215–237. https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE18.2020.012

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