EN266 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Terrence Malick, Richard Gere, Breadbasket
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Relationship of nature and culture is at the heart of it. Understand the director and the body of work. To note: the composition of each shot. Moving from a bail of hay to all of a sudden into the home. America in formation identities shifting and in flux on the frontier. Communities are torn asunder and are trying to reform themselves. But the world cornfields; that their yield would be one of the great economic facts which underlie all the activities of men, in peace or war. Cannot overstress the importance of agriculture in this period. Emerson: the nature essay is bouncing off the idea of finding. It lured people west, jobs, food, to break open the plains place. This film too like the painting american progress, contains a history of technology. Sings the song of the prairies, a hymn to land, place, animals, people to nature .
