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題名 Codas of Creation: Emanation Mysticism and Alchemical Regeneration in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
作者 柯瑞強
貢獻者 英文系
關鍵詞 Neoplatonism;Kabbalah;Hermeticism;alchemy;renaissance;film;Terrence Malick;mysticism
日期 2015-12
上傳時間 6-Jun-2016 15:46:40 (UTC+8)
摘要 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.
關聯 Religion and the Arts, Vol.19, No.5, pp.552 – 582
資料類型 article
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-01905004
dc.contributor 英文系-
dc.creator (作者) 柯瑞強-
dc.date (日期) 2015-12-
dc.date.accessioned 6-Jun-2016 15:46:40 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 6-Jun-2016 15:46:40 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 6-Jun-2016 15:46:40 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/97691-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) 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.-
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dc.relation (關聯) Religion and the Arts, Vol.19, No.5, pp.552 – 582-
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Neoplatonism;Kabbalah;Hermeticism;alchemy;renaissance;film;Terrence Malick;mysticism-
dc.title (題名) Codas of Creation: Emanation Mysticism and Alchemical Regeneration in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life-
dc.type (資料類型) article-
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1163/15685292-01905004-
dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-01905004-