The Work of Terrence Malick

Time-Based Ecocinema

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by Gabriella Blasi

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Terrence Malick

Keywords

Terrence Malick, director, philosophy

Publishing date

2019

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Collection

Film Culture in Transition

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 178 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-94-6298-910-8

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Book Presentation:
The Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema develops a timely ecocinema approach to film analysis illuminated by Benjamin's notion of the turn of time. Current work on Malick's films emphasizes the spatial dynamics of his cinema, particularly as it pertains, from within a phenomenological framework, to the viewer's experience of films. This book redirects scholarly attention to the way Malick's directorial work shapes time and duration, laying new groundwork for the analysis of how films unsettle nature-culture binaries in modernity. The study performs this intervention through a rigorous engagement with Walter Benjamin's work on time, violence and technologies and the emergent figural approach to aesthetics in film studies. Each of these methods has important precedents in film studies and other fields. The combination of methods performed in this book contributes to understanding the relevance of a time-based approach to Malick's films and the practical implications of a time-based relation to history in contemporary ecocinema discourses.

About the Author:
Gabriella Blasi teaches and researches at Griffith University as Adjunct in the Centre for Social and Cultural Research. Her research and academic publications consistently focus on the complexities of nature-culture relations in contemporary culture and cinema.

Press Reviews:
Blasi’s thesis is that Malick’s body of work articulates a radical shift in traditional human relations to time, nature, and technology in the twenty-first century."
-Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard Kronoscope , issue 24, 2024

See the publisher website: Amsterdam University Press

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