Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-229), filmography (p. 222-223) and index
Introduction : Poetic visions of America / Hannah Patterson -- All things shining : the 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 -- The 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 : the western re-myth / John Orr -- 'Enjoying the scenery' : landscape and the fetishisation of nature in Badlands and Days of heaven / Ben McCann -- Innocents abroad : the young woman's voice in Badlands and Days of heaven, with an afterword on The new world / Anne Latto -- Listening to the aquarium : the symbolic use of music in Days of heaven / Richard Power -- Sound as music in the films of Terrence Malick / James Wierzbicki -- 'Everything a lie' : the critical and commercial reception of Terrence Malick's The thin red line / Martin Flanagan -- The greatest generation steps over The thin red line / John Streamas -- The 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
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