Terrence Malick : filmmaker and philosopher / Robert Sinnerbrink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinnerbrink, Robert, author.

Series:

Philosophical filmmakers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malick, Terrence, 1943---Criticism and interpretation.

Malick, Terrence.

Malick, Terrence, 1943---Philosophy.

Malick, Terrence, 1943-.

Philosophy.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 250 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Terrence Malick : a philosophical cinema?

Approaching cinematic ethics : Badlands and Days of heaven

Philosophy encounters film : The thin red line

Philosophy learns from film : The new world

Cinema as ethics : The tree of life

Discourses on love : Malick's "Weightless" trilogy

Conclusion : Malick's cinematic ethics (a philosophical dialogue).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sinnerbrink, Robert, Terrence Malick

ISBN:

9781350063631

1350063630

9781350063648

1350063649

OCLC:

1048939070