عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA125356
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Codas of Creation
General Material Designation
[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
John Michael Corrigan
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This article gives a mystical interpretation of Terrence Malick's award-winning film, The Tree of Life (2011), arguing that Malick carefully develops two esoteric patterns to structure his visual language: first, a triadic symbolism of divine emanation and return, and second, a complementary alchemical pattern of ascent and descent portraying the process of regeneration. Far from being a doctrinal presentation of Christianity, as some critics suppose, The Tree of Life engages little known but highly influential bodies of esoteric knowledge to offer a visually complex and symmetrical representation of genesis and alchemical transmutation. With the tree of life presented as an initiatory symbol of the axis mundi, Malick's film portrays creation as a chiastic process, one point of view staging a triadic structure of emanation mysticism and the other offering a magical variation of this pattern in the human struggle for renewal in time. This article gives a mystical interpretation of Terrence Malick's award-winning film, The Tree of Life (2011), arguing that Malick carefully develops two esoteric patterns to structure his visual language: first, a triadic symbolism of divine emanation and return, and second, a complementary alchemical pattern of ascent and descent portraying the process of regeneration. Far from being a doctrinal presentation of Christianity, as some critics suppose, The Tree of Life engages little known but highly influential bodies of esoteric knowledge to offer a visually complex and symmetrical representation of genesis and alchemical transmutation. With the tree of life presented as an initiatory symbol of the axis mundi, Malick's film portrays creation as a chiastic process, one point of view staging a triadic structure of emanation mysticism and the other offering a magical variation of this pattern in the human struggle for renewal in time.
SET
Date of Publication
2015
Physical description
552-582
Title
Religion and the Arts
Volume Number
19/5
International Standard Serial Number
1568-5292
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
alchemy
Subject Term
film
Subject Term
Hermeticism
Subject Term
Kabbalah
Subject Term
mysticism
Subject Term
Neoplatonism
Subject Term
renaissance
Subject Term
Terrence Malick
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
John Michael Corrigan
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
10.1163/15685292-01905004
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب p
[Article]
275578
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