Terrence Malick

by Michaels, Lloyd

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Title Statements

Full title :Terrence Malick / Lloyd Michaels.

Summary

For a director who has made only four feature films over three decades, Terrence Malick has sustained an extraordinary critical reputation as one of America's most original and independent filmmakers. In this book, Lloyd Michaels analyzes each of Malick's four features in depth, emphasizing both repetitive formal techniques such as voiceover and long lens cinematography as well as recurrent themes drawn from the director's academic training in modern philosophy and American literature. Michaels explores Malick's synthesis of the romance of mythic American experience and the aesthetics of European art film. He performs close cinematic analysis of paradigmatic moments in Malick's films: the billboard sequence in Badlands, the opening credits in Days of Heaven, the philosophical colloquies between Witt and Welsh in The Thin Red Line, and the epilogue in The New World. This richly detailed study also includes the only two published interviews with Malick, both in 1975 following the release of his first feature film.--Amazon.com.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Illinois Press
Place of Publication:Urbana
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 125 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780252033858, 025203385X, 9780252075759, 0252075757
oclc:ocn213495445
LC Classification:PN1998.3.M3388
Dewey Decimal:791.43023/3092

Terrence Malick : a cinema in front of our eyes -- Badlands -- Days of heaven -- The thin red line -- The new world -- Interview / by Beverly Walker in Sight and sound -- Interview / by Michel Ciment in Positif.