Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Films Directed by Terrence Malick xi
4. Illustrations xiii
5. Preface xv
6. Acknowledgments xxi
7. Malickian Cinema at the Intersection of Art and Philosophy 1
8. Cinematic Experience as Ethical Reflection and Spiritual Exercise
9. “Find Your Way from Darkness to Light” 25
10. Terrence Malick’s Cosmic Cinema 47
11. “Why Should I Be Good If You Aren’t?” 63
12. Performativity and Transformative Experience 91
13. Mystery, Evil, Creation: Framing the “Big Questions”
14. Life-Time 107
15. Not One Power, But Two 127
16. Tending God’s Garden 147
17. Explorations of Image and Voiceover
18. Sotto voce 165
19. The Melancholic Image in Days of Heaven 179
20. Terrence Malick’s Ephemeral and Eternal Images 197
21. Malick’s Cartesianism, or the Ghost by the Machine 221
22. Love Is Smiling through All Things 237
23. Let Me Not Pretend 257
24. The Pursuit of Freedom and Transcendence
25. Platonic Myths of Eros in Knight of Cups and Song to Song 279
26. The Alien God Behind the Camera 299
27. A Hidden Life of Love 319
28. Bleeding Hearts 337
29. Authoritarianism and the Authoritarian Personality 355
30. “But I Am Free!” 375
31. Contributors 393
32. Index 401