The American Nightmare, or the revelation of the uncanny in three documentary films by Werner Herzog La pesadilla Americana, o la revelación de lo extraño en tres documentales de Werner Herzog Academic Article in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • © 2018 Universidad de Guadalajara. All rights reserved.This paper analyzes three Werner Herzog's films: How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976), Huie's Sermon (1981) and God's Angry Man (1981) through his use of the sequence shot as a documentary device. Although the strong relation of this way of shooting with direct cinema, Herzog deconstructs its use to generate moments of filmic revelation, away from a mere recording of events.

publication date

  • May 1, 2018