| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
x, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Directors' cuts
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Directors' cuts.
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| Note |
Previous ed.: 2003. |
| Summary |
This updated book continues its explorations of identity, place and existence in his films, with three new essays by Adrian Martin, Mark Cousins and James Morrison on his latest film The New World (2005), as well as analysis of Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven (1978) and The Thin Red Line (1998). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-229), filmography (pages 222-223) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Poetic visions of America / Hannah Patterson -- All things shining : Struggle for wholeness, redemption and transcendence in the films of Terrence Malick / Ron Mottram -- Two characters in search of a direction : motivation and the construction of identity in Badlands / Hannah Patterson -- Highway kind : Badlands, youth, space and the road / Neil Campbell -- Days of heaven and the myth of the west / Joan McGettigan -- Terrence Malick and Arthur Penn : Western re-myth / John Orr -- 'Enjoying the scenery' : landscape and the fetishisation of nature in Badlands and Days of heaven / Ben McCann -- Innocents abroad : Young woman's voice in Badlands and Days of heaven, with an afterword on The new world / Anne Latto -- Listening to the aquarium : Symbolic use of music in Days of heaven / Richard Power -- Sound as music in the films of Terrence Malick / James Wierzbicki -- 'Everything a lie' : Critical and commercial reception of Terrence Malick's The thin red line / Martin Flanagan -- Greatest generation steps over The thin red line / John Streamas -- Other world of war : Terrence Malick's adaptation of The thin red line / Stacey Peebles -- Terrence Malick, landscape and 'What is this war in the heart of nature?' / Robert Silberman -- Terrence Malick's Heideggerian cinema : war and the question of being in The thin red line / Mark Furstenau and Leslie MacAvoy -- Praising The new world / Mark Cousins -- Making worlds, making pictures : Terrence Malick's The new world / James Morrison -- Approaching The new world / Adrian Martin. |
| Subject |
Malick, Terrence, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Malick, Terrence, 1943- |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Added Author |
Patterson, Hannah.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Cinema of Terrence Malick. 2nd ed. London ; New York : Wallflower, 2007 (OCoLC)647524410 |
| ISBN |
9781905674268 hardback |
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1905674260 hardback |
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1905674252 paperback |
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9781905674251 paperback |
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