Terrence Malick's Unseeing Cinema

Memory, Time and Audibility
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-09485-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 201 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 291 g

This unique study opens up a new dimension of Terrence Malick’s cinema – its expressions of unseeing and hearing. ‘Unseeing’ is Malick’s means of transcending the moment in order to enter the life that unfolds; to treat cinema as a real experience for those who live its reality. In this way, Terrence Malick’s Unseeing Cinema moves beyond film theory to advance a work of original philosophy, bringing together two thinkers not normally associated with one another: Gilles Deleuze and Søren Kierkegaard. It investigates how Malick’s gatherings of time allow one to explore new philosophical questions about immanence and transcendence, ethics and faith, time and infinity, and the foldings of subjectivity that are central to both philosophers. Beyond cinema, it offers a way to think about our everyday repetitions and recollections and our ephemeral points of connection with those we love. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Batcho, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Unseeing.- 3. 'Logos' of Cinema.- 4. Days of Heaven and Hell.- 5. Malick's Temporal Shift.- 6. Listening to the 'Logos'.- 7. Continuer.                 

Über Autor(innen)

James Batcho is Assistant Professor at United International College, China. He is the author of Sound for Independent Audiovisual Storytelling.