Terrence Malick Film and Philosophy

by Tucker, Thomas Deane; Kendall, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9781441150035
• ISBN10: 144115003X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-12
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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

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

Notes on Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Voicing Meaning: On Terrence Malick's Characters	p. 13
Terrence Malick's Histories of Violence	p. 40
Rührender Achtung. Terrence Malick's Cinematic Neo-Modernity	p. 58
Worlding the West: An Ontopology of Badlands	p. 80
Fields of Vision: Human Presence in the Plain Landscapes of Terrence Malick and Wright Morris	p. 101
The Belvedere and the Bunkhouse: Space and Place in Days of Heaven	p. 126
The Tragic Indiscernibility of Days of Heaven	p. 148
Darkness from Light: Dialectics and The Thin Red Line	p. 165
Song of the Earth: Cinematic Romanticism in Malick's The New World	p. 179
Whereof One Cannot Speak: Terrence Malick's The New World	p. 197
Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 217
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