Martin Woessner

Terrence Malick and the Examined Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book is the most comprehensive account to date of the intellectual and artistic development of one of Hollywood's most celebrated filmmakers. Utilizing newly available archival sources to offer an original interpretation of Malick's storied career, it shows how a philosophy student searching for meaning became the most talked-about director of his generation"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 161mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9781512825602
• ISBN-10: 1512825603
• Artikelnr.: 68854989

Autorenporträt

Martin Woessner is Associate Professor of History & Society at The City College of New York (CUNY), Center for Worker Education.

Inhaltsangabe

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