Terrence Malick
Film and Philosophy
Published on 12. May 2011
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-4411-5003-5 (ISBN)
Description
Discusses Malick s films as individual objects, as a corpus, within contemporary film studies, and within a wider cultural discussion.
Reviews / Votes
[A] robust invocation and endorsement of the relation between filmmaking and philosophy ... The book is well written and well informed. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE * The volume succeeds as an example of multitudinous approach to the philosophy of film, and broadly speaks to readers interested in the relationship between cinema and philosophy as well as the films of Terrence Malick. [...] [It] presents original investigation of a filmmaker whose work has clearly intrigued, yet often also baffled audiences. -- Emre Caglayan, University of Kent, UK * Cinema Journal * Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy 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 Badlands to The New World. --Dr David Martin-Jones, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of St Andrews, UKMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
546 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-5003-5 (9781441150035)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Stuart Kendall is a San Francisco Bay area based scholar and Associate Professor of Humanities at Eastern Kentucky University working in visual and critical studies. He is the author of Georges Bataille (Reaktion Books, Critical Lives). Thomas Deane Tucker is a professor of Humanities at Chadron State College. He is the author of Derridada: Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction (Lexington Books).
Content
Introduction; Stuart Kendall and Thomas Deane Tucker; Voicing Meaning: On Terrence Malick's Characters; Steven Rybin; Terrence Malick's Histories of Violence; John Bleasdale; Ruhrender 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.