About this Event
Join author Martin Woessner at Clio's for the release of his new book, Terrence Malick and the Examined Life (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024). Malick's films—from Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978) to The Thin Red Line (1998), The Tree of Life (2011), and, most recently, A Hidden Life (2019)—have been heralded for their artistry and lauded for their beauty. But what really sets them apart is their ideas.
In Terrence Malick and the Examined Life, Woessner provides the most comprehensive account to date of this unparalleled filmmaker’s intellectual and artistic development. Illuminating Malick’s early education in philosophy at Harvard and Oxford as well as his cinematic apprenticeship at the American Film Institute, the author shows how a young student searching for personal meaning became a famous director of Hollywood films. Situating Malick’s filmmaking within recent intellectual and cultural history, Woessner highlights its lasting contributions to both American cinema and the life of the mind.
Terrence Malick and the Examined Life suggests it is time for philosophy to be viewed not merely as an academic subject, overseen by experts, but also as a way of life, open to each and every moviegoer.
Martin Woessner is Associate Professor of History & Society at the City College of New York's Center for Worker Education (CUNY), where he teaches interdisciplinary courses in intellectual and cultural history, film and philosophy, human rights, and American studies. In addition to Terrence Malick and the Examined Life , he is the author of Heidegger in America (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and writes frequently for theLos Angeles Review of Books.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Clio's, 353 Grand Avenue, Oakland, United States
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