Terrence Malick
Subtitle: film and philosophy
By: edited by Thomas Deane Tucker and Stuart Kendall
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781441150035
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Stuart Kendall and Thomas Deane Tucker; title: Voicing meaning: on Terrence Malick's characters / Steven Rybin; title: Terrence Malick's histories of violence / John Bleasdale; title: Rührender achtung: Terrence Malick's cinematic neo-modernity / Thomas Wall; title: Worlding the west: an ontopology of Badlands / Thomas Deane Tucker; title: Fields of vision: human presence in the plain landscapes of Terrence Malick and Wright Morris / Matthew Evertson; title: The belvedere and the bunkhouse: space and place in Days of heaven / Ian Rijsdijk; title: The tragic indiscernibility of Days of heaven / Stuart Kendall; title: Darkness from light: dialectics and The thin red line / Russell Manning; title: Song of the earth: cinematic romanticism in Malick's The new world / Robert Sinnerbrink; title: Whereof one cannot speak: Terrence Malick's The new world / Elizabeth Walden.