Terrence Malick

Stuart Kendall is a San Francisco Bay area based scholar and Associate Professor of Humanities at Eastern Kentucky University working in visual and critical studies. He is the author of Georges Bataille (Reaktion Books, Critical Lives). Thomas Deane Tucker is a professor of Humanities at Chadron State College. He is the author of Derridada: Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction (Lexington Books).

• Introduction; Stuart Kendall and Thomas Deane Tucker; Voicing Meaning: On Terrence Malick's Characters; Steven Rybin; Terrence Malick's Histories of Violence; John Bleasdale; Ruhrender Achtung: Terrence Malick's Cinematic Neo-Modernity; Thomas Wall; Worlding the West: An Ontopology of Badlands; Thomas Deane Tucker; Fields of Vision: Human Presence in the Plain Landscape of Badlands and Days of Heaven; Matthew Evertson; The Belvedere and the Bunkhouse: space and place in Days of Heaven; Ian Rijsdijk; The Tragic Indiscernibility of Days of Heaven; Stuart Kendall; Darkness from Light: Dialectics and The Thin Red Line; Russell Manning; Song of the Earth: Cinematic Romanticism in Malick's The New World; Robert Sinnerbrink; Whereof One Cannot Speak: Terrence Malick's The New World; Elizabeth Walden; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.

[A] robust invocation and endorsement of the relation between filmmaking and philosophy … The book is well written and well informed. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.