Journal article
Nature and the Unmaking of the World: Reading Figures of Nature in Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven
Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, Vol.61(1), pp.67-73
2014
Abstract
Nature and the twentieth-century industrializing of America provide the setting for Malick's film Days of Heaven (1978). This article offers a figural analysis of images of nature to reveal the moving forward of both human and natural cycles in the film. Through a reading of figures of nature, Days of Heaven reveals a clear figural communality between human and natural cycles of world making and unmaking. Furthermore, it retrospectively illuminates the formation of the world of twentieth-century American industrialization.
Details
- Title
- Nature and the Unmaking of the World: Reading Figures of Nature in Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven
- Authors
- Gabriella Blasi (Author) - University of Queensland
- Publication details
- Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, Vol.61(1), pp.67-73
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2014
- DOI
- 10.1179/2051285614Z.00000000024
- ISSN
- 2051-2856
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450453802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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