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Terrence Malick and the Examined Life - Martin Woessner

Terrence Malick and the Examined Life

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Buch | Hardcover
416 Seiten
2024
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-1-5128-2560-2 (ISBN)
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Terrence Malick is one of American cinema’s most celebrated filmmakers. His films—from Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978) to The Thin Red Line (1998), The Tree of Life (2011), and, most recently, A Hidden Life (2019)—have been heralded for their artistry and lauded for their beauty, but what really sets them apart is their ideas. Terrence Malick and the Examined Life is the most comprehensive account to date of this unparalleled filmmaker’s intellectual and artistic development.

Utilizing newly available archival sources to offer original interpretations of his canonical films, Martin Woessner illuminates Malick’s early education in philosophy at Harvard and Oxford as well as his cinematic apprenticeship at the American Film Institute to show how a young student searching for personal meaning became a famous director of Hollywood films. Woessner’s book presents a rich, interdisciplinary exploration of the many texts, thinkers, and traditions that made this transformation possible—from the novels of Hamlin Garland, James Jones, and Walker Percy to the philosophies of Stanley Cavell, Martin Heidegger, and Søren Kierkegaard to road movies, Hollywood Westerns, and the comedies of Jean Renoir. Situating Malick’s filmmaking within recent intellectual and cultural history, Woessner highlights its lasting contributions to both American cinema and the life of the mind.

Terrence Malick and the Examined Life suggests it is time for philosophy to be viewed not merely as an academic subject, overseen by experts, but also as a way of life, open to each and every moviegoer.

Martin Woessner is Associate Professor of History and Society at The City College of New York (CUNY), Center for Worker Education, and author of Heidegger in America.

Preface. The Important Things in Life

Introduction. From Philosophy to Film

Chapter 1. Crime Wave: The Pursuit of Personhood in Badlands

Chapter 2. Wonders of the Prairie: The Metaphysics of Days of Heaven

Chapter 3. Heroism, Individualism, and the Over-Soul: The Transcendentalist Theodicy of The Thin Red Line

Chapter 4. Ways of Worldmaking: Beginnings and Endings in The New World

Chapter 5. Cosmic Confessions, Part I: The Tree of Life and the Problem of Suffering

Chapter 6. Cosmic Confessions, Part II: The Search for Meaning in To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, and Voyage of Time

Chapter 7. Lost and Found: The Gift of Mercy in Song to Song and A Hidden Life

Conclusion. From Film to Philosophy

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Intellectual History of the Modern Age
Zusatzinfo 40 b/w illus.
Verlagsort Pennsylvania
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-5128-2560-3 / 1512825603
ISBN-13 978-1-5128-2560-2 / 9781512825602
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