DeLay Life Above the Clouds

Philosophy in the Films of Terrence Malick
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9213-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 426 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

The definitive philosophical exploration of the work of pioneering filmmaker Terrence Malick.

Autoren/Hrsg.

DeLay, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.