Terrence Malick

[A] robust invocation and endorsement of the relation between filmmaking and philosophy … The book is well written and well informed. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *
The volume succeeds as an example of multitudinous approach to the philosophy of film, and broadly speaks to readers interested in the relationship between cinema and philosophy as well as the films of Terrence Malick. [...] [It] presents original investigation of a filmmaker whose work has clearly intrigued, yet often also baffled audiences. -- Emre Çaglayan, University of Kent, UK * Cinema Journal *
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