Terrence Malick Film and Philosophy [Paperback]

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.

Discusses Malick's films as individual objects, as a corpus, within contemporary film studies, and within a wider cultural discussion.

Introduction
Stuart Kendall and Thomas Deane Tucker Voicing Meaning: On Terrence Malick's Characters
Steven Rybin
Terrence Malick's Histories of Violence
John Bleasdale
R?hrender 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 ofBadlandsandDays of Heaven
Matthew Evertson
The Belvedere and the Bunkhouse: space and place inDays of Heaven
Ian Rijsdijk
The Tragic Indiscernibility ofDays of Heaven
Stuart Kendall
Darkness from Light: Dialectics andThe Thin Red Line
Russell Manning
Song of the Earth: Cinematic Romanticism in Malick'sThe New World
Robert Sinnerbrink
Whereof One Cannot Speak: Terrence Malick'sThe New World
Elizabeth Walden
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