Biographies in the cinema of the real by Werner Herzog. Speeches to remember and think about the present

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https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v6n12.280

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Cinema of the real, biography, memory, performance, interview, Werner Herzog

Abstract

Cinema of what is real nurtures itself from reality to reflect upon it. It is distinguished from traditional documentaries because it does not have claims and pretensions of objectivity. Werner Herzog has created more than fifty movies of reality, among them you find a series of portrayals of extraordinary characters. In this text we analyze two of them: Meeting Gorbachev and Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin. Both movies attempt to tell a biographic story with implications of the present. In which, through this analysis it is proposed to reflect on the ways of remembering, on the interview and on the performance inside the cinema of what is real. The analysis is divided between the parts of the rhetoric discourse: arguments, order and rhetoric figures, to see how the versions of these stories are constructed by the hands of this film maker.

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Author Biography

  • Fabiola Alcalá, Universidad de Guadalajara

    Fabiola Alcalá Anguiano holds a PhD in Audiovisual Communication from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She is a research professor in the Department of Social Communication Studies at the University of Guadalajara and Coordinator of the Guadalajara Film Researchers Network (REDIC). Her main lines of research are: film analysis, documentary film and visual studies.

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Published

2023-09-21

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Biographies in the cinema of the real by Werner Herzog. Speeches to remember and think about the present. (2023). Encartes, 6(12), 113-136. https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v6n12.280