{"product_id":"terrence-malick","title":"Terrence Malick","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor a director who has made a limited number of feature films over four-plus decades, Terrence Malick sustains an extraordinary reputation as one of America’s most original and independent directors. Lloyd Michaels analyzes Malick’s first 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. Like Heidegger, Malick seems to regard the human experience of nature as a mystery revealed primarily through moods rather than cognition. Like Wittgenstein, he is less concerned with apprehending the world than with simply acknowledging its beingness \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichaels's critical approach explores Malick’s synthesis of the romance of mythic American experience and the aesthetics of European art film. He pays particular attention to paradigmatic moments: the billboard sequence in \u003ci\u003eBadlands,\u003c\/i\u003e the opening credits for \u003ci\u003eDays of Heaven,\u003c\/i\u003e the philosophical colloquies between Witt and Welsh in \u003ci\u003eThe Thin Red Line,\u003c\/i\u003e and the epilogue of \u003ci\u003eThe New World.\u003c\/i\u003e Michaels also sheds light on the two dark decades separating \u003ci\u003eDays of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e from \u003ci\u003eThe Thin Red Line\u003c\/i\u003e, when the director mostly lived as an expatriate in Paris. Two 1975 interviews with the famously elusive Malick round out the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54222472839512,"sku":"9780252075759","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780252075759_51cdc9db-5fd0-44b9-8072-7cc2ad4163a0.jpg?v=1778558477","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/terrence-malick","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}