📗 Libro en inglés TERRENCE MALICK

Many critics have approached Terrence Malick s work from a philosophical perspective arguing that his films express philosophy through cinema With their remarkable images of nature poetic voiceovers and meditative reflections Malick s cinema certainly invites philosophical engagement In Terrence Malick Filmmaker and Philosopher Robert Sinnerbrink takes a different approach exploring Malick s work as a case of cinematic ethics films that evoke varieties of ethical experience encompassing existential metaphysical and religious perspectives Malick s films are not reducible to a particular moral position or philosophical doctrine rather they solicit ethically significant forms of experience encompassing anxiety and doubt wonder and awe to questioning and acknowledgment through aesthetic engagement and poetic reflection Drawing on a range of thinkers and approaches from Heidegger and Cavell Nietzsche and Kierkegaard to phenomenology and moral psychology Sinnerbrink explores how Malick s films respond to the problem of nihilism the loss of conviction or belief in prevailing forms of value and meaning and the possibility of ethical transformation through cinema from self transformation in our relations with others to cultural transformation via our att