Life Above the Clouds
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9212-4 (ISBN)
Leaving a promising career in academic philosophy to embark on a career in film, American director Terrence Malick has created cinematic works of art that are also deeply philosophical. His contribution to philosophy through a half century of filmmaking has become the focus of increasing scholarly attention. Inviting the reader along a journey of reflections at the intersection of film, art, and philosophy, Life Above the Clouds brings together an international team of contributors to present the most current and definitive statement of the filmmaker's work. Accessibly written and exploring films such as Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, Song to Song, and A Hidden Life, the nineteen essays herein will be of interest not only to scholars and students of philosophy, theology, film studies, and aesthetics, but also to anyone with a true love of film.
Steven DeLay is Research Fellow at the Global Center for Advanced Studies. His many books include Everything; Faint Not: Twelve Brief Meditations on the Word of God; In the Spirit: A Phenomenology of Faith; Before God: Exercises in Subjectivity; and Phenomenology in France: A Philosophical and Theological Introduction.
List of Films Directed by Terrence Malick
List of Illustrations
Preface
Robert Sinnerbrink
Acknowledgments
Malickian Cinema at the Intersection of Art and Philosophy: An Introduction
Steven DeLay
Part I. Cinematic Experience as Ethical Reflection and Spiritual Exercise
1. “Find Your Way from Darkness to Light”: Cinema as Spiritual Exercise
Jonathan Scott Lee
2. Terrence Malick’s Cosmic Cinema
Manuel “Mandel” Cabrera Jr.
3. “Why Should I Be Good If You Aren’t?” The Problem of the Moral World in The Tree of Life
James D. Reid and Candace R. Craig
4. Performativity and Transformative Experience: Terrence Malick’s Mysticism
Rico Gutschmidt
Part II. Mystery, Evil, Creation: Framing the “Big Questions”
5. Life-Time: Mystery in The Tree of Life
David R. Cerbone
6. Not One Power, But Two: Dark Grounds and Twilit Paradises in Malick
Jussi Backman
7. Tending God’s Garden: Philosophical Themes in The Tree of Life
Naomi Fisher
Part III. Explorations of Image and Voiceover
8. Sotto voce: Inscription as Voiceover in Malick’s Days of Heaven
Fred Rush
9. The Melancholic Image in Days of Heaven
Keith Jacobs and Jeff Malpas
10. Terrence Malick’s Ephemeral and Eternal Images: Deleuze, Time-Image, and Montage
James Lorenz
11. Malick’s Cartesianism, or the Ghost by the Machine
Enrico Terrone
12. Love Is Smiling through All Things: Jean-Luc Marion, Simone Weil, and the Visual Style of Terrence Malick
Joel Mayward
13. Let Me Not Pretend: The Promise of Beauty in To the Wonder
Steven Rybin
Part IV. The Pursuit of Freedom and Transcendence
14. Platonic Myths of Eros in Knight of Cups and Song to Song
Matthew Strohl
15. The Alien God Behind the Camera: A Gnostic Viewing of Terrence Malick’s Cinema, especially Knight of Cups
Lee Braver
16. A Hidden Life of Love: Sacrifice in Malick’s Cinematographic Philosophy
Katerina Koci and Martin Koci
17. Bleeding Hearts: Edith Stein, Franz Jägerstätter, and Martyrdom
Donald Wallenfang
18. Authoritarianism and the Authoritarian Personality: Malick’s Tragedy of Disobedience
David Benjamin Johnson
19. “But I Am Free!” Malick on Freedom and Transcendence
Daniel Layman
List of Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.07.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 18 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-9212-X / 143849212X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-9212-4 / 9781438492124 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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