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In his major book Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche warned his contemporaries: "Alas! The time is coming when man will no more shoot the arrow of his longing out over mankind, and the string of his bow will have forgotten how to twang!...Behold! I shall show you the Last Man." Martin Škabraha´s new book on Terrence Malick draws inspiration from this metaphor, and, against the dominant critical approach to Malick in terms of spiritual cinema, reads his work as a reflection of American capitalism. Škabraha links historical materialism with anthropologist Stephen Gudeman´s notion of market logic “cascading” destructively into the realm of mutuality. This concept provides an original interpretive key to Malick´s films, which portray the gradual loss of human capacity to bring a new beginning to the old world.
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Expelled to paradise. Terrence Malick's last man, Martin Škabraha
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- Expelled to paradise. Terrence Malick's last man
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Martin Škabraha
- Publisher
- Palacky University in Olomouc
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN10
- 8024447614
- ISBN13
- 9788024447612
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Social Sciences, Philosophical Topics, Art, Philosophy, Film, Culture, History of Film, Philosophy of Culture, Film Theory, Perception of Artwork
- Rating
- 2.6 out of 5
- Description
- In his major book Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche warned his contemporaries: "Alas! The time is coming when man will no more shoot the arrow of his longing out over mankind, and the string of his bow will have forgotten how to twang!...Behold! I shall show you the Last Man." Martin Škabraha´s new book on Terrence Malick draws inspiration from this metaphor, and, against the dominant critical approach to Malick in terms of spiritual cinema, reads his work as a reflection of American capitalism. Škabraha links historical materialism with anthropologist Stephen Gudeman´s notion of market logic “cascading” destructively into the realm of mutuality. This concept provides an original interpretive key to Malick´s films, which portray the gradual loss of human capacity to bring a new beginning to the old world.