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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 comedie

Author

MARTIN. WOESSNER

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9781512825602

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities