Terrence Malick (Contemporary Film Directors) - Softcover

Michaels, Lloyd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252075757 ISBN 13: 9780252075759

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Lloyd Michaels is a professor of English at Allegheny College. Since 1977, he has edited the journal Film Criticism, and he is the author of The Phantom of the Cinema: Character in Modern Film.

Review:

"A comprehensive introduction to this iconoclastic filmmaker's work. Rich in insights, this book is a pleasure to read." -- Arthur Nolletti Jr.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0252075757
• ISBN 13: 9780252075759
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 125