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Terrence Malick
Filmmaker and Philosopher
Taschenbuch von Robert Sinnerbrink
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Robert Sinnerbrink
Zusammenfassung
Unlike most other films on Malik, this book focuses on his most recent films: The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, Song to Song, and Voyage of Time
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Terrence Malick: A Philosophical Cinema?
- Malick as filmmaker and philosopher
- Can film 'do philosophy'?
- Malick's Cinematic Ethics

Chapter 1: Approaching Cinematic Ethics: Badlands and Days of Heaven
- Badlands: Myth, history, and violence
- Days of Heaven: Myth, love, and tragedy
- A 'negative' cinematic ethic

Chapter 2: Philosophy Encounters Film: The Thin Red Line
- What is a 'Heideggerian' cinema?
- Malick as phenomenologist of finitude
- Malick as cinematic philosopher
- The Thin Red Line's 'Vernacular Metaphysics'
- The Thin Red Line as Existential Ethics

Chapter 3: Philosophy Learns from Film: The New World
- Exploring Cinematic Worlds
- Romanticism, Nature, Culture
- Mythic History and Cinematic Poetry
- Exploring Cinematic Romanticism

Chapter 4: Cinema as Ethics: The Tree of Life
- From 'film as philosophy' to cinematic ethics
- The Tree of Life and Cinematic Belief
- Aesthetic experience and transformative ethics
- Appendix: Voyage of Time

Chapter 5: Discourses on Love: Malick's 'Weightless' Trilogy
- Malick's 'weightless' or 'faith and love' trilogy (To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, Song to Song)
- Love sick: a Kierkegaardian critique
- Poetic phenomenologies of loving experience
- Myth, Narrative, and Abstraction: the challenge of Malick's late films

Conclusion: Malick's cinematic ethics (a philosophical dialogue)
- The rationalist sceptic versus the romantic idealist (three questions):
1) How to avoid naïve romanticism, aesthetic pretentiousness, and religious mysticism?
2) Malick's 'religious' turn: are his films still philosophical?
3) Is a cinematic response to nihilism enough?
- Cinematic thinking as ethical experience

Bibliography
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350063648
ISBN-10: 1350063649
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sinnerbrink, Robert
Redaktion: Bradatan, Costica
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 216 x 139 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Robert Sinnerbrink
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.07.2019
Gewicht: 0,339 kg
Artikel-ID: 114247517
Über den Autor
Robert Sinnerbrink
Zusammenfassung
Unlike most other films on Malik, this book focuses on his most recent films: The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, Song to Song, and Voyage of Time
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Terrence Malick: A Philosophical Cinema?
- Malick as filmmaker and philosopher
- Can film 'do philosophy'?
- Malick's Cinematic Ethics

Chapter 1: Approaching Cinematic Ethics: Badlands and Days of Heaven
- Badlands: Myth, history, and violence
- Days of Heaven: Myth, love, and tragedy
- A 'negative' cinematic ethic

Chapter 2: Philosophy Encounters Film: The Thin Red Line
- What is a 'Heideggerian' cinema?
- Malick as phenomenologist of finitude
- Malick as cinematic philosopher
- The Thin Red Line's 'Vernacular Metaphysics'
- The Thin Red Line as Existential Ethics

Chapter 3: Philosophy Learns from Film: The New World
- Exploring Cinematic Worlds
- Romanticism, Nature, Culture
- Mythic History and Cinematic Poetry
- Exploring Cinematic Romanticism

Chapter 4: Cinema as Ethics: The Tree of Life
- From 'film as philosophy' to cinematic ethics
- The Tree of Life and Cinematic Belief
- Aesthetic experience and transformative ethics
- Appendix: Voyage of Time

Chapter 5: Discourses on Love: Malick's 'Weightless' Trilogy
- Malick's 'weightless' or 'faith and love' trilogy (To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, Song to Song)
- Love sick: a Kierkegaardian critique
- Poetic phenomenologies of loving experience
- Myth, Narrative, and Abstraction: the challenge of Malick's late films

Conclusion: Malick's cinematic ethics (a philosophical dialogue)
- The rationalist sceptic versus the romantic idealist (three questions):
1) How to avoid naïve romanticism, aesthetic pretentiousness, and religious mysticism?
2) Malick's 'religious' turn: are his films still philosophical?
3) Is a cinematic response to nihilism enough?
- Cinematic thinking as ethical experience

Bibliography
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350063648
ISBN-10: 1350063649
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sinnerbrink, Robert
Redaktion: Bradatan, Costica
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 216 x 139 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Robert Sinnerbrink
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.07.2019
Gewicht: 0,339 kg
Artikel-ID: 114247517
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