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
Discusses Malick's films as individual objects, as a corpus, within contemporary film studies, and within a wider cultural discussion.
Thomas Deane Tucker is Professor of Humanities at Chadron State College. He is the author of Derridada: Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction. Stuart Kendall teaches Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts. He is the author of Georges Bataille and The Ends of Art and Design.
[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.
*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, UK
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