Description: Discusses Malick's films as individual objects, as a corpus, within contemporary film studies, and within a wider cultural discussion. >
Review Quotes: "Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy" provides a wonderfully stimulating range of approaches to Malick's films, unlocking the philosophical depths of the most thoughtful auteur of recent decades. The collection engages Malick's cinematic oeuvre with the works of Heidegger and Cavell as might be expected, but also provocatively deploys Deleuze, Hegel, Marx, Schiller, Derrida and Merleau-Ponty alongside esteemed film theorists like Sobchack and Branigan. As such, this book is at the cutting edge of recent developments in film-philosophy, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the subject. It is also a superb exploration of Malick's most important films as writer and director, from "Badlands" to "The New World".
Dr David Martin-Jones, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of St Andrews, UK