The Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema

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Table of Contents
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
		Framing Nature and History in Malick Scholarship
		Ecocritical Film Studies and the Problem of Space
		The Figural Approach to Analysis in Film Studies
		Benjamin’s Concept of Time in Film Studies
		Terrence Malick’s Work: Time-Based Ecocinema
		Works Cited
	1.	From Myth, Tragedy and Narrative to Allegory, Trauerspiel and Film in Badlands and Days of Heaven
		Symbolic and Allegorical Nature in Badlands
		Tragedy and Trauerspiel in Days of Heaven
		Prehistory and Second Technologies in Badlands and Days of Heaven
		The Blue Flower in the Land of Technology: Splinters of Messianic Time in Badlands and Days of Heaven
		Conclusion: from Mythic to Figural Temporal Relations in Films
		Works Cited
	2.	Time and History in The Thin Red Line and The New World.
		The Thin Red Line Between Historical and Mechanical Nature
		Critiquing Violence in Nature and History
		Timidity and Courage in The Thin Red Line and The New World
		Camera Work as Pure Mediality
		Conclusion: Time-Based Phenomenology
		Works Cited
	3.	Looking at Evolutionary Narratives in The Tree of Life and Voyage of Time
		Replaying Life’s Tape? Competing Mythological Narratives in Malick’s The Tree of Life and Voyage of Time
		Reconfiguring Modern Aesthetics in Evolutionary Narratives
		Figural Space beyond Idealism and Nihilism
		Materialist Theology in The Tree of Life and Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey
		Conclusion: Counterfactual Histories in Evolutionary Narratives
		Works Cited
	4. The Wastelands of Progress in To the Wonder, Knight of Cups and Song to Song
		The End of Teleological Time in To the Wonder
		The Pilgrim’s Progress in Knight of Cups
		Twenty-First Century’s Histories and Technologies in Song to Song
		Contemporary Ecocinema in Song to Song
		Conclusion: Finite Freedom and Materialist Theology in Ecocinema
		Works Cited
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
	About the Author
	Index