Terrence Malick Film and Philosophy

by Tucker, Thomas Deane; Kendall, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9781628928419
• ISBN10: 1628928417
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-01-16
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Thomas Deane Tucker is a professor of Humanities at Chadron State College. He is the author of Derridada: Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction (Lexington Books).


Stuart Kendall teaches Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts. He is the author of Georges Bataille (Reaktion Books, Critical Lives) and The Ends of Art and Design (Infrathin Press).

Table of Contents

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