The Thin Red Line

ISBN-13: 9780415773645 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 116 str.

David Davies

Opis

The Thin Red Line is the third feature-length film from acclaimed director Terrence Malick, set during the struggle between American and Japanese forces for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific during World War Two. It is a powerful, enigmatic and complex film that raises important philosophical questions, ranging from the existential and phenomenological to the artistic and technical. This is the first collection dedicated to exploring the philosophical aspects of Malick's film. Opening with a helpful introduction that places the film in context, five essays, four of which were specially commissioned for this collection, go on to examine the following:

• the exploration of Heideggerian themes - such as being-towards-death and the vulnerability of Dasein's world - in The Thin Red Line

• how Malick's film explores and cinematically expresses the embodied nature of our experience of, and agency in, the world

• Malick's use of cinematic techniques, and how the style of his images shapes our affective, emotional, and cognitive responses to the film

• the role that images of nature play in Malick's cinema, and his 'Nietzschean' conception of human nature.

The Thin Red Line is essential reading for students interested in philosophy and film or phenomenology and existentialism. It also provides an accessible and informative insight into philosophy for those in related disciplines such as film studies, literature and religion. Contributors: Simon Critchley, Hubert Dreyfus and Camilo Prince, David Davies, Amy Coplan, Iain Macdonald.

The Thin Red Line is the third film from acclaimed director Terrence Malick, set during the struggle between American and Japanese forces for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific in World War Two. It is a powerful, enigmatic and complex film that raises important philosophical questions, ranging from the existential and phenomenological to the artistic and technical.

The first book to explore Malick’s film, it examines the following topics:

• the role of truth, immortality and ‘calm’ in the Thin Red Line
• the central place of Heidegger's thought in Malick's work, such as authenticity and being-towards-death
• metaphysics and the concept of rationality and community
• Malick’s use of style and emotion to contrast the ‘natural’ world with the ‘human’ world
• The centrality of the themes of vision and touch in The Thin Red Line

Including annotated sections of further reading at the end of each chapter and a biography of Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line is essential reading for students interested in philosophy and film or phenomenology and existentialism.

Spis treści

1. Introduction David Davies  2. Calm—On Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line Simon Critchley  3. The Thin Red Line: Dying without Demise, Demise Without Dying Hubert Dreyfus and Camilo Prince  4. Vision, Touch and Embodiment in The Thin Red Line David Davies  5. Form and Feeling in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line Amy Coplan  6. Nature and the Will to Power in Terrence Malick’s The New World Iain Macdonald

O autorze

David Davies is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University, Canada. He is the author of Art as Performance (2004) and Aesthetics and Literature (2007), and in this series, editor (with Amy Coplan) of Blade Runner (Routledge, 2015).