Overview
- Offers a radical reorientation to how we think about films and filmmaking
- Challenges film theory’s familiar language, representational and visual approaches, to advance the work of Deleuze, particularly the ‘unseeing’ aspects of his philosophy of difference
- Subverts dominant discourses of sound phenomenology to emphasize experiences of hearing and listening
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Front Matter
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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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Terrence Malick’s Unseeing Cinema
Book Subtitle: Memory, Time and Audibility
Authors: James Batcho
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76421-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76420-7Published: 04 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09485-0Published: 24 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76421-4Published: 23 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 201
Topics: Directing, American Cinema and TV, Aesthetics