<i>Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy</i> provides a wonderfully stimulating range of approaches to Malick's films, unlocking the philosophical depths of the most thoughtful auteur of recent decades. The collection engages Malick's cinematic oeuvre with the works of Heidegger and Cavell as might be expected, but also provocatively deploys Deleuze, Hegel, Marx, Schiller, Derrida and Merleau-Ponty alongside esteemed film theorists like Sobchack and Branigan. As such, this book is at the cutting edge of recent developments in film-philosophy, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the subject. It is also a superb exploration of Malick's most important films as writer and director, from <i>Badlands </i>to <i>The New World</i>.

- David Martin-Jones, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of St Andrews, UK,

Terrence Malick's four feature films have been celebrated by critics and adored as instant classics among film aficionados, but the body of critical literature devoted to them has remained surprisingly small in comparison to Malick's stature in the world of contemporary film.

Each of the essays in Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy is grounded in film studies, philosophical inquiry, and the emerging field of scholarship that combines the two disciplines. Malick's films are also open to other angles, notably phenomenological, deconstructive, and Deleuzian approaches to film, all of which are evidenced in this collection.

Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy engages with Malick's body of work in distinct and independently significant ways: by looking at the tradition within which Malick works, the creative orientation of the filmmaker, and by discussing the ways in which criticism can illuminate these remarkable films.

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Introduction
Stuart Kendall and Thomas Deane Tucker Voicing Meaning: On Terrence Malick's Characters
Steven Rybin
Terrence Malick's Histories of Violence
John Bleasdale
Rührender Achtung: Terrence Malick's Cinematic Neo-Modernity
Thomas Wall
Worlding the West: An Ontopology of Badlands
Thomas Deane Tucker
Fields of Vision: Human Presence in the Plain Landscape of Badlands and Days of Heaven
Matthew Evertson
The Belvedere and the Bunkhouse: space and place in Days of Heaven
Ian Rijsdijk
The Tragic Indiscernibility of Days of Heaven
Stuart Kendall
Darkness from Light: Dialectics and The Thin Red Line
Russell Manning
Song of the Earth: Cinematic Romanticism in Malick's The New World
Robert Sinnerbrink
Whereof One Cannot Speak: Terrence Malick's The New World
Elizabeth Walden
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

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Discusses Malick's films as individual objects, as a corpus, within contemporary film studies, and within a wider cultural discussion.
Terrence Malick is arguably the most understudied contemporary major American filmmaker.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781628928419
Publisert
2014-03-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Vekt
290 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Biografisk notat

Thomas Deane Tucker is a Professor of Humanities at Chadron State College, USA. He is the author of Derridada: Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction.


Stuart Kendall teaches Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts, USA. He is the author of Georges Bataille and The Ends of Art and Design.