"Aftertones of Infinity": Biblical and Darwinian Evocations in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and To the Wonder
In this article I argue that in The Tree of Life and To the Wonder Terrence Malick continues to explore, on an epic scale, a theme that permeates the previous four (Badlands, 1973; Days of Heaven, 1978; The Thin Red Line, 1998; The New World, 2005): innocence to experience. I suggest that Malick’s o...
| Subtitles: | The 2015 International Conference on Religion and Film in Istanbul |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
[publisher not identified]
2016
|
| In: |
The journal of religion and film
Year: 2016, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-22 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
The tree of life (Film)
/ Genesis
/ Darwin, Charles 1809-1882, On the origin of species by means of natural selection
|
| RelBib Classification: | HA Bible ZB Sociology ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (kostenfrei) |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000caa a22000002 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | 1563514540 | ||
| 003 | DE-627 | ||
| 005 | 20230523181605.0 | ||
| 007 | cr uuu---uuuuu | ||
| 008 | 170914s2016 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-627)1563514540 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-576)493514546 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BSZ493514546 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-627 |b ger |c DE-627 |e rda | ||
| 041 | |a eng | ||
| 084 | |a 0 |2 ssgn | ||
| 100 | 1 | |e VerfasserIn |0 (DE-588)1140755250 |0 (DE-627)898672848 |0 (DE-576)493514511 |4 aut |a Robbins, Gregory | |
| 109 | |a Robbins, Gregory |a Robbins, Gregory Allen | ||
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a "Aftertones of Infinity" |b Biblical and Darwinian Evocations in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and To the Wonder |c Gregory Allen Robbins |
| 246 | 1 | |i Rubrikentitel |a The 2015 International Conference on Religion and Film in Istanbul | |
| 264 | 1 | |c 2016 | |
| 336 | |a Text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a Computermedien |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a Online-Ressource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 520 | |a In this article I argue that in The Tree of Life and To the Wonder Terrence Malick continues to explore, on an epic scale, a theme that permeates the previous four (Badlands, 1973; Days of Heaven, 1978; The Thin Red Line, 1998; The New World, 2005): innocence to experience. I suggest that Malick’s oeuvre reflects a recurring evocation of and commentary on the primeval, biblical stories of Genesis 1-11. The title of his 2011 installment betrays, however, a more encompassing vision. Viewers whose gaze is oriented by biblical studies will associate "the tree of life" with Genesis 2 and Revelation 22. Few will recognize "the tree of life" as the name Charles Darwin gives to the only diagram in his On the Origin of Species (1859). The Tree of Life is a sprawling meditation on both "trees." To the Wonder continues in the same vein. Malick, I maintain, is reckoning with those forces that seem to be built into the cosmic and societal scheme of things - energies that are at once creative and nurturing, destructive and tragic - and the mythic traditions to which moderns have explanatory recourse. By contrast, To the Wonder is a smaller film. While its title seems to promise something both grandiose and mystical, the film offers only fleeting glimpses of the transcendent, the numinous. Like The Tree of Life, it is consumed with disappointment and loss, with yearning and the desire for return, and, in the end, resonates with the sentiment Joseph Schwanter captures in his poem and his Pulitzer Prize-winning musical setting of it: "Celestial voices echo the lost dreams of the children of the universe/the aftertones of infinity." | ||
| 652 | |a HA:ZB:ZG | ||
| 689 | 0 | 0 | |d u |0 (DE-588)1114293148 |0 (DE-627)868584460 |0 (DE-576)477276792 |a The tree of life |2 gnd |g Film |
| 689 | 0 | 1 | |d u |0 (DE-588)4020126-0 |0 (DE-627)104544899 |0 (DE-576)208931961 |a Bibel |2 gnd |p Genesis |
| 689 | 0 | 2 | |d u |0 (DE-588)4303201-1 |0 (DE-627)121617564 |0 (DE-576)211056332 |a Darwin, Charles |2 gnd |d 1809-1882 |t On the origin of species by means of natural selection |
| 689 | 0 | |5 (DE-627) | |
| 773 | 0 | 8 | |i Enthalten in |t The journal of religion and film |d Omaha : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], 1997 |g 20(2016), 1, Artikel-ID 17, Seite 1-22 |h Online-Ressource |w (DE-627)271600942 |w (DE-600)1481114-5 |w (DE-576)281190658 |x 1092-1311 |7 nnns |
| 773 | 1 | 8 | |g volume:20 |g year:2016 |g number:1 |g elocationid:17 |g pages:1-22 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol20/iss1/17 |x Verlag |x Resolving-System |z kostenfrei |3 Volltext |
| 951 | |a AR | ||
| BIB | |a 1 | ||
| BIR | |a 28000000_28999999 |b biblesearch | ||
| ELC | |a 1 | ||
| LOK | |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 | ||
| LOK | |0 001 2980285986 | ||
| LOK | |0 003 DE-627 | ||
| LOK | |0 004 1563514540 | ||
| LOK | |0 005 20230523181605 | ||
| LOK | |0 008 170914||||||||||||||||ger||||||| | ||
| LOK | |0 040 |a DE-Tue135 |c DE-627 |d DE-Tue135 | ||
| LOK | |0 092 |o n | ||
| LOK | |0 852 |a DE-Tue135 | ||
| LOK | |0 852 1 |9 00 | ||
| LOK | |0 935 |a ixzs |a ixzo | ||
| LOK | |0 936ln |0 144204408X |a HA | ||
| LOK | |0 936ln |0 1442053755 |a ZB | ||
| LOK | |0 936ln |0 1764172264 |a ZG | ||
| OAS | |a 1 | ||
| ORI | |a SA-MARC-ixtheoa001.raw | ||
| REL | |a 1 | ||
| SUB | |a BIB |a REL | ||
| SYG | 0 | 0 | |a Genesis,Bereshit,Berešit,Mose,1.,Moses,1.,Mose,I.,Moses,I.,Gen,Gn,Ge,Das erste Buch Mose,Banjibun-i nomun,Genèse , Darwin, Charles,1809-1882,Über die Entstehung der Arten im Tier- und Pflanzenreich durch natürliche Züchtung oder Erhaltung der vervollkommneten Rassen im Kampf ums Dasein,Darwin, Charles,1809-1882,The origin of species by means of natural selection,Darwin, Charles,1809-1882,Über die Entstehung der Arten durch natürliche Zuchtwahl oder die Erhaltung der begünstigten Rassen im Kampfe um's Dasein,Darwin, Charles,1809-1882,Die Fundamente der Entstehung der Arten,Darwin, Charles,1809-1882,Die Entstehung der Arten durch natürliche Zuchtwahl,Darwin, Charles,1809-1882,The origin of species,Darwin, Charles,1809-1882,Über die Entstehung der Arten durch natürliche Zuchtwahl,Darwin, Charles,1809-1882,Die Entstehung der Arten durch Naturauslese,Darwin, Charles,1809-1882,Der Ursprung der Arten durch natürliche Selektion oder Die Erhaltung begünstigter Rassen im Existenzkampf,Darwin, Charles,1809-1882,Der Ursprung der Arten durch natürliche Selektion,Darwin, Charles,1809-1882,Die Erhaltung begünstigter Rassen im Existenzkampf,Darwin, Charles,1809-1882,Postanak fela pomoću prirodnog odviranja ili Održavanje ponjegovanich rasa u borbi za život |