Terrence Malick Film and Philosophy [Hardcover]

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 inTerrence Malick: Film and Philosophyis 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 Philosophyengages 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.

Thomas Deane Tuckeris Professor of Humanities at Chadron State College. He is the author ofDerridada: Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction.

Stuart Kendallteaches Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts. He is the author ofGeorges BatailleandThe Ends of Art and Design.

IntroductionStuart Kendall and Thomas Deane Tucker
Voicing Meaning: On Terrence Malick's CharactersSteven Rybin
Terrence Malick's Histories of ViolenceJohn Bleasdale
R?hrender Achtung: Terrence Malick's Cinematic Neo-ModernityThomas Wall
Worlding the West: An Ontopology of BadlandsThomas Deane Tucker
Fields of Vision: Human Presence in the Plain Landscape ofBadlandsandDays of HeavenMatthew Evertson
The Belvedere and the Bunkhouse: space and place inDays of HeavenIan Rijsdijk
The Tragic Indiscernibility ofDays of HeavenStuart Kendall
Darkness from Light: Dialectics andThe Thin Rl“*