Terrence Malick and the Examined Life
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Terrence Malick and the Examined Life

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Terrence Malick and the Examined Life

About this book

Terrence Malick is one of American cinema's most celebrated filmmakers. His films—from Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978) to The Thin Red Line (1998), The Tree of Life (2011), and, most recently, A Hidden Life (2019)—have been heralded for their artistry and lauded for their beauty, but what really sets them apart is their ideas. Terrence Malick and the Examined Life is the most comprehensive account to date of this unparalleled filmmaker's intellectual and artistic development.

Utilizing newly available archival sources to offer original interpretations of his canonical films, Martin Woessner illuminates Malick's early education in philosophy at Harvard and Oxford as well as his cinematic apprenticeship at the American Film Institute to show how a young student searching for personal meaning became a famous director of Hollywood films. Woessner's book presents a rich, interdisciplinary exploration of the many texts, thinkers, and traditions that made this transformation possible—from the novels of Hamlin Garland, James Jones, and Walker Percy to the philosophies of Stanley Cavell, Martin Heidegger, and Søren Kierkegaard to road movies, Hollywood Westerns, and the comedies of Jean Renoir. Situating Malick's filmmaking within recent intellectual and cultural history, Woessner highlights its lasting contributions to both American cinema and the life of the mind.

Terrence Malick and the Examined Life suggests it is time for philosophy to be viewed not merely as an academic subject, overseen by experts, but also as a way of life, open to each and every moviegoer.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Series page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Preface. The Important Things in Life
  9. Introduction. From Philosophy to Film
  10. Chapter 1. Crime Wave: The Pursuit of Personhood in Badlands
  11. Chapter 2. Wonders of the Prairie: The Metaphysics of Days of Heaven
  12. Chapter 3. Heroism, Individualism, and the Over-Soul: The Transcendentalist Theodicy of The Thin Red Line
  13. Chapter 4. Ways of Worldmaking: Beginnings and Endings in The New World
  14. Chapter 5. Cosmic Confessions, Part I: The Tree of Life and the Problem of Suffering
  15. Chapter 6. Cosmic Confessions, Part II: The Search for Meaning in To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, and Voyage of Time
  16. Chapter 7. Lost and Found: The Gift of Mercy in Song to Song and A Hidden Life
  17. Conclusion. From Film to Philosophy
  18. Notes
  19. Index
  20. Acknowledgments