Terrence Malick’s Unseeing Cinema: Memory, Time and Audibility

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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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9783319764207   9783319764214   3319764209   3030094855

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Continuer

A Malick film neither begins nor ends but continues in its repetitions. This brief “continuing” chapter therefore returns and responds to themes addressed in the introduction, while speculating on Malick the filmmaker and his characters as conceptual personae.

Listening to the Logos

While the previous chapter was an overview of Malick’s temporal shift, this chapter explores his post-Days of Heaven films in depth from the standpoint of unseeing. Shifting states of listening resonate an ethics of openness in The Thin Red Line, The New World, and The Tree of Life. A more hopeful c... see more

Malick’s Temporal Shift

Moving to The Thin Red Line and beyond, both Malick’s cinema and the prose of the book move into an ethics of recollection and repetition. Malick’s increasingly vertical temporality is evident in shifting states of simultaneity and coexistence . Memory is explored particularly through Kierkegaard an... see more

Days of Heaven and Hell

This chapter is a deep exploration of present unseeing in Malick’s Days of Heaven—a film about a failure to listen. The film applies Peirce’s and Deleuze’s semiotics to audible relations: firstness , secondness , and thirdness . The film’s release corresponds with the emergence of mixing as an art f... see more

Logos of Cinema

This chapter proposes a logos of cinema as an unseeing engagement with time, particularly as conceived through Deleuze’s terms. His writings on visual aspects of cinematic subjectivity, virtual/actual dynamics, and hodological/crystalline mnemonic states are reworked through audible engagements of s... see more

Unseeing

The book begins with the image by exploring the photograph, which is an observational relationship that also contains the idea of time and audibility. To enter into cinematic unseeing, we go into the logos of a film. With reverie and audibility as the backdrop, this chapter critiques major aspects o... see more

Introduction

The reader is dropped into cinema as a continuation, in the midst of time. Setting aside distances of gaze and textuality, the introduction moves inside cinema to the thinking within that becomes a philosophical form of expression. This chapter proposes new terms for Malick’s unseeing cinema: audibi... see more

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