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Narrative and Experiment, Religion and Politics in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life

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dc.creatorPowell, Russel C.
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-23T08:25:05Z
dc.date.available2023-05-23T08:25:05Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractWhile most interpretations of Terrence Malick's 2011 The Tree of Life concentrate on the film's theological resonances, I focus here on The Tree of Life's political vision. I locate this vision in the fraught relationship between two influential strands of American religio-political thought, Augustinianism and Emersonianism. The Tree of Life's theological concerns are undoubtedly Augustinian, yet it takes up a similar radical politics as what Emerson did in his best-known essays. The result, I argue, is a cinema of religio-political possibility with important implications for a potential rapproachment between religionists (namely evangelical Christians) and secularists, particularly on the topic of environmental conservation and sustainability.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.05:2019.2.9
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19508
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/168
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20700
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
dc.subjectNarrativeen
dc.subjectExperimenten
dc.subjectReligionen
dc.subjectPoliticsen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personTerrence Malick
dc.subject.workTHE TREE OF LIFE
dc.titleNarrative and Experiment, Religion and Politics in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Lifeen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2023-05-23T10:43:10
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/168
local.source.epage185
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleApocalyptic Imaginings
local.source.spage167
local.source.volume5
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/128538805
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215478
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q244257

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