Desire, incomprehensibility, and despair in the Antarctic vision of Werner Herzog

• Main Author: Barber, Jacob
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Alcalá 2015
• Subjects: Werner Herzog; Antarctica; Climate change; Myth; Despair; History; Antártida; Cambio climático; Mito; Desesperanza; Historia; Literatura; Medio ambiente; Literature; Environmental science; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Consecuencia; Deseo; Desesperación; Antarc*; Antártica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10017/24294

Werner Herzog’s 2007 documentary Encounters at the End of the World concerns human ideals of exploration in the extreme environment of the Antarctic. Throughout the film, Herzog and his characters enrol the Antarctic variously as a site of desire and as a site of incomprehensibility in self-told nar...