Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Poetic Visions of America, by Hannah Patterson 1. All Things Shining: The Struggle for Wholeness, Redemption and Transcendence in the Films of Terrence Malick, by Ron Mottram Through the Badlands Into Days of Heaven : Malick's Filmmaking in the 1970s 2. Two Characters in Search of a Direction: Motivation and the Construction of Identity in Badlands , by Hannah Patterson 3. The Highway Kind: Badlands , Youth, Space and the Road, by Neil Campbell 4. Days of Heaven and the Myth of the West, by Joan McGettigan 5. Terrence Malick and Arthur Penn: The Western Re-Myth, by John Orr 6. 'Enjoying the Scenery': Landscape and the Fetishisation of Nature in Badlands and Days of Heaven , by Ben McCann 7. Innocents Abroad: The Young Woman's Voice in Badlands and Days of Heaven , with an Afterword on The New World , by Anne Latto 8.

Listening to the Aquarium: The Symbolic Use of Music in Days of Heaven , by Richard Power 9. Sound as Music in the Films of Terrence Malick, by James Wierzbicki Negotiating The Thin Red Line 10. 'Everything a Lie': The Critical and Commercial Reception of Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line , by Martin Flanagan 11. The Greatest Generation Steps Over The Thin Red Line , by John Streamas 12. The Other World of War: Terrence Malick's Adaptation of The Thin Red Line , by Stacey Peebles 13. Terrence Malick, Landscape and 'What is this war in the heart of nature?', by Robert Silberman 14. Terrence Malick's Heideggerian Cinema: War and the Question of Being in The Thin Red Line , by Marc Furstenau and Leslie MacAvoy Discovering The New World 15. Praising The New World , by Mark Cousins 16.

Making Worlds, Making Pictures: Terrence Malick's The New World , by James Morrison 17. Approaching The New World , by Adrian Martin Filmography Bibliography Index.