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...
For a director who has made only four feature films over three decades, Terrence Malick has sustained an extraordinary critical reputation as one of A...
