Robert Sinnerbrink is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, MacQuarrie University, Australia. He is the author of Cinematic Ethics (2016), New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Understanding Hegelism (2007)

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Terrence Malick: A Philosophical Cinema? - Malick as filmmaker and philosopher- Can film ‘do philosophy’? - Malick’s Cinematic EthicsChapter 1: Approaching Cinematic Ethics: Badlands and Days of Heaven - Badlands: Myth, history, and violence- Days of Heaven: Myth, love, and tragedy- A ‘negative’ cinematic ethicChapter 2: Philosophy Encounters Film: The Thin Red Line - What is a ‘Heideggerian’ cinema?- Malick as phenomenologist of finitude- Malick as cinematic philosopher- The Thin Red Line’s ‘Vernacular Metaphysics’- The Thin Red Line as Existential EthicsChapter 3: Philosophy Learns from Film: The New World- Exploring Cinematic Worlds- Romanticism, Nature, Culture- Mythic History and Cinematic Poetry- Exploring Cinematic RomanticismChapter 4: Cinema as Ethics: The Tree of Life- From ‘film as philosophy’ to cinematic ethics- The Tree of Life and Cinematic Belief- Aesthetic experience and transformative ethics- Appendix: Voyage of Time Chapter 5: Discourses on Love: Malick’s ‘Weightless’ Trilogy- Malick’s ‘weightless’ or ‘faith and love’ trilogy (To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, Song to Song)- Love sick: a Kierkegaardian critique- Poetic phenomenologies of loving experience- Myth, Narrative, and Abstraction: the challenge of Malick’s late filmsConclusion: Malick’s cinematic ethics (a philosophical dialogue)- The rationalist sceptic versus the romantic idealist (three questions): 1) How to avoid naïve romanticism, aesthetic pretentiousness, and religious mysticism?2) Malick’s ‘religious’ turn: are his films still philosophical?3) Is a cinematic response to nihilism enough?- Cinematic thinking as ethical experienceBibliographyIndex

“[An] homage to Malick (b. 1943) and a robust invocation and endorsement of the relation between filmmaking and philosophy … The book is well written and well informed. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.”

Robert Sinnerbrink is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, MacQuarrie University, Australia. He is the author of Cinematic Ethics (2016), New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Understanding Hegelism (2007)

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Terrence Malick: A Philosophical Cinema? - Malick as filmmaker and philosopher- Can film ‘do philosophy’? - Malick’s Cinematic EthicsChapter 1: Approaching Cinematic Ethics: Badlands and Days of Heaven - Badlands: Myth, history, and violence- Days of Heaven: Myth, love, and tragedy- A ‘negative’ cinematic ethicChapter 2: Philosophy Encounters Film: The Thin Red Line - What is a ‘Heideggerian’ cinema?- Malick as phenomenologist of finitude- Malick as cinematic philosopher- The Thin Red Line’s ‘Vernacular Metaphysics’- The Thin Red Line as Existential EthicsChapter 3: Philosophy Learns from Film: The New World- Exploring Cinematic Worlds- Romanticism, Nature, Culture- Mythic History and Cinematic Poetry- Exploring Cinematic RomanticismChapter 4: Cinema as Ethics: The Tree of Life- From ‘film as philosophy’ to cinematic ethics- The Tree of Life and Cinematic Belief- Aesthetic experience and transformative ethics- Appendix: Voyage of Time Chapter 5: Discourses on Love: Malick’s ‘Weightless’ Trilogy- Malick’s ‘weightless’ or ‘faith and love’ trilogy (To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, Song to Song)- Love sick: a Kierkegaardian critique- Poetic phenomenologies of loving experience- Myth, Narrative, and Abstraction: the challenge of Malick’s late filmsConclusion: Malick’s cinematic ethics (a philosophical dialogue)- The rationalist sceptic versus the romantic idealist (three questions): 1) How to avoid naïve romanticism, aesthetic pretentiousness, and religious mysticism?2) Malick’s ‘religious’ turn: are his films still philosophical?3) Is a cinematic response to nihilism enough?- Cinematic thinking as ethical experienceBibliographyIndex

“[An] homage to Malick (b. 1943) and a robust invocation and endorsement of the relation between filmmaking and philosophy … The book is well written and well informed. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.”

Robert Sinnerbrink is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, MacQuarrie University, Australia. He is the author of Cinematic Ethics (2016), New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Understanding Hegelism (2007)

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Terrence Malick: A Philosophical Cinema? - Malick as filmmaker and philosopher- Can film ‘do philosophy’? - Malick’s Cinematic EthicsChapter 1: Approaching Cinematic Ethics: Badlands and Days of Heaven - Badlands: Myth, history, and violence- Days of Heaven: Myth, love, and tragedy- A ‘negative’ cinematic ethicChapter 2: Philosophy Encounters Film: The Thin Red Line - What is a ‘Heideggerian’ cinema?- Malick as phenomenologist of finitude- Malick as cinematic philosopher- The Thin Red Line’s ‘Vernacular Metaphysics’- The Thin Red Line as Existential EthicsChapter 3: Philosophy Learns from Film: The New World- Exploring Cinematic Worlds- Romanticism, Nature, Culture- Mythic History and Cinematic Poetry- Exploring Cinematic RomanticismChapter 4: Cinema as Ethics: The Tree of Life- From ‘film as philosophy’ to cinematic ethics- The Tree of Life and Cinematic Belief- Aesthetic experience and transformative ethics- Appendix: Voyage of Time Chapter 5: Discourses on Love: Malick’s ‘Weightless’ Trilogy- Malick’s ‘weightless’ or ‘faith and love’ trilogy (To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, Song to Song)- Love sick: a Kierkegaardian critique- Poetic phenomenologies of loving experience- Myth, Narrative, and Abstraction: the challenge of Malick’s late filmsConclusion: Malick’s cinematic ethics (a philosophical dialogue)- The rationalist sceptic versus the romantic idealist (three questions): 1) How to avoid naïve romanticism, aesthetic pretentiousness, and religious mysticism?2) Malick’s ‘religious’ turn: are his films still philosophical?3) Is a cinematic response to nihilism enough?- Cinematic thinking as ethical experienceBibliographyIndex

“[An] homage to Malick (b. 1943) and a robust invocation and endorsement of the relation between filmmaking and philosophy … The book is well written and well informed. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.”