Historical Moods in Film
Abstract: This essay explores the concept of historical mood as it is captured in narrative film, and considers its value for film studies and philosophy of film. Drawing on phenomenological…
Early Film-Philosophy: A Dialectical Fable
The philosophy of film remains to be formulated. Jean Epstein, “The Senses 1 b)” (1921) With the demise of ‘grand theory’ in the 1990s, film studies in recent decades has…
Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film
Steven Rybin, Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2012. ISBN 978-0-7391-6675-8 US$65 (hb) 236pp (Review copy supplied by Lexington books) For a filmmaker renowned for…
From Mythic History to Cinematic Poetry: Terrence Malick’s The New World Viewed
Abstract Terrence Malick’s The New World (2005) is a poetic evocation of one of America’s founding myths, the story of Pocahontas. While the film allegorises - through the theme of marriage -…