Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Poetic Visions of America, by Hannah Patterson
1. All Things Shining: The Struggle for Wholeness, Redemption and
Transcendence in the Films of Terrence Malick, by Ron Mottram
Through the Badlands Into Days of
Heaven: Malick's Filmmaking in the 1970s
2. Two Characters in Search of a Direction: Motivation and the
Construction of Identity in Badlands, by Hannah Patterson
3. The Highway Kind: Badlands, Youth, Space and the Road, by Neil
Campbell
4. Days of Heaven and the Myth of the West, by Joan McGettigan
5. Terrence Malick and Arthur Penn: The Western Re-Myth, by John
Orr
6. 'Enjoying the Scenery': Landscape and the Fetishisation of
Nature in Badlands and Days of Heaven, by Ben McCann
7. Innocents Abroad: The Young Woman's Voice in Badlands and Days
of Heaven, with an Afterword on The New World, by Anne Latto
8. Listening to the Aquarium: The Symbolic Use of Music in Days of
Heaven, by Richard Power
9. Sound as Music in the Films of Terrence Malick, by James
Wierzbicki
Negotiating The Thin Red Line
10. 'Everything a Lie': The Critical and Commercial Reception of
Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, by Martin Flanagan
11. The Greatest Generation Steps Over The Thin Red Line, by John
Streamas
12. The Other World of War: Terrence Malick's Adaptation of The
Thin Red Line, by Stacey Peebles
13. Terrence Malick, Landscape and 'What is this war in the heart
of nature?', by Robert Silberman
14. Terrence Malick's Heideggerian Cinema: War and the Question of
Being in The Thin Red Line, by Marc Furstenau and Leslie
MacAvoy
Discovering The New World
15. Praising The New World, by Mark Cousins
16. Making Worlds, Making Pictures: Terrence Malick's The New
World, by James Morrison
17. Approaching The New World, by Adrian Martin
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
Hannah Patterson is a freelance writer and critic, and co-editor of Contemporary North American Film Directors (Wallflower Press, 2002)
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