The Cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic Visions

With 2005's The New World, one of cinema's most enigmatic and original filmmakers returned to the screen with only his fourth feature film in a career of over thirty years. This updated second edition of The Cinema of Terrence Malick 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).

Introduction : poetic visions of America	p. 1
All things shining : the struggle for wholeness, redemption and transcendence in the films of Terrence Malick	p. 14
Through the Badlands into Days of heaven : Malick's filmmaking in the 1970s
Two characters in search of a direction : motivation and the construction of identity in Badlands	p. 27
The highway kind : Badlands, youth, space and the road	p. 40
Days of heaven and the myth of the west	p. 52
Terrence Malick and Arthur Penn : the western re-myth	p. 63
'Enjoying the scenery' : landscape and the fetishisation of nature in Badlands and Days of heaven	p. 77
Innocents abroad : the young woman's voice in Badlands and Days of heaven, with an afterword on The new world	p. 88
Listening to the aquarium : the symbolic use of music in Days of heaven	p. 103
Sound as music in the films of Terrence Malick	p. 112
Negotiating The Thin Red Line
'Everything a lie' : the critical and commercial reception of Terrence Malick's The thin red line	p. 125
The greatest generation steps over The thin red line	p. 141
The other world of war : Terrence Malick's adaptation of The thin red line	p. 152
Terrence Malick, landscape and 'what is this war in the heart of nature?'	p. 164
Terrence Malick's Heideggerian cinema : war and the question of being in The thin red line	p. 179
D : T N W
Praising The new world	p. 192
Making worlds, making pictures : Terrence Malick's The new world	p. 199
Approaching The new world	p. 212
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