Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film
Title | Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Rybin |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0739166751 |
As the director of Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, and The New World, Terrence Malick has created a remarkable body of work that enables imaginative acts of philosophical interpretation. Steven Rybin's Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film looks closely at the dialogue between Malick's films and our powers of thinking, showing how his work casts the philosophy of thinkers such as Stanley Cavell, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Andr Bazin, Edgar Morin, and Immanuel Kant in new cinematic light. With a special focus on how the voices of Malick's characters move us to thought, Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film offers new readings of his films and places Malick's work in the context of recent debates in the interdisciplinary field of film and philosophy. Rybin also provides a postscript on Malick's recently-released fifth film, The Tree of Life.
Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film
Title | Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Rybin |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2011-11-17 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0739166778 |
Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film explores how the experience of viewing Terrence Malick's films enables imaginative acts of philosophical interpretation. Useful for both professional philosophers interested in film and scholars of cinema intrigued by philosophy, this book shows the ways Malick's films cast philosophy in new cinematic light.
Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film
Title | Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Rybin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780739180105 |
Introduction -- Voicing meaning: on Terrence Malick's characters -- On Badlands -- On Days of heaven -- On The thin red line -- On The new world -- Postscript: on the tree of life.
Terrence Malick
Title | Terrence Malick PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Sinnerbrink |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2019-07-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1350063657 |
Many critics have approached Terrence Malick's work from a philosophical perspective, arguing that his films express philosophy through cinema. With their remarkable images of nature, poetic voiceovers, and meditative reflections, Malick's cinema certainly invites philosophical engagement. In Terrence Malick: Filmmaker and Philosopher, Robert Sinnerbrink takes a different approach, exploring Malick's work as a case of cinematic ethics: films that evoke varieties of ethical experience, encompassing existential, metaphysical, and religious perspectives. Malick's films are not reducible to a particular moral position or philosophical doctrine; rather, they solicit ethically significant forms of experience, encompassing anxiety and doubt, wonder and awe, to questioning and acknowledgment, through aesthetic engagement and poetic reflection. Drawing on a range of thinkers and approaches from Heidegger and Cavell, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, to phenomenology and moral psychology Sinnerbrink explores how Malick's films respond to the problem of nihilism the loss of conviction or belief in prevailing forms of value and meaning and the possibility of ethical transformation through cinema: from self-transformation in our relations with others to cultural transformation via our attitudes towards towards nature and the world. Sinnerbrink shows how Malick's later films, from The Tree of Life to Voyage of Time, provide unique opportunities to explore cinematic ethics in relation to the crisis of belief, the phenomenology of love, and film's potential to invite moral transformation.
Terrence Malick
Title | Terrence Malick PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Deane Tucker |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2011-05-12 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1441148957 |
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.
Terrence Malick and the Examined Life
Title | Terrence Malick and the Examined Life PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Woessner |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2024-03-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1512825611 |
Terrence Malick is one of American cinema’s most celebrated filmmakers. His films—from Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978) to The Thin Red Line (1998), The Tree of Life (2011), and, most recently, A Hidden Life (2019)—have been heralded for their artistry and lauded for their beauty, but what really sets them apart is their ideas. Terrence Malick and the Examined Life is the most comprehensive account to date of this unparalleled filmmaker’s intellectual and artistic development. Utilizing newly available archival sources to offer original interpretations of his canonical films, Martin Woessner illuminates Malick’s early education in philosophy at Harvard and Oxford as well as his cinematic apprenticeship at the American Film Institute to show how a young student searching for personal meaning became a famous director of Hollywood films. Woessner’s book presents a rich, interdisciplinary exploration of the many texts, thinkers, and traditions that made this transformation possible—from the novels of Hamlin Garland, James Jones, and Walker Percy to the philosophies of Stanley Cavell, Martin Heidegger, and Søren Kierkegaard to road movies, Hollywood Westerns, and the comedies of Jean Renoir. Situating Malick’s filmmaking within recent intellectual and cultural history, Woessner highlights its lasting contributions to both American cinema and the life of the mind. Terrence Malick and the Examined Life suggests it is time for philosophy to be viewed not merely as an academic subject, overseen by experts, but also as a way of life, open to each and every moviegoer.
The Historical Thought of Film
Title | The Historical Thought of Film PDF eBook |
Author | Steven M. Rybin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 966 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Badlands (Motion picture) |
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