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Spiraling Downward: America in Days of Heaven , In the Valley of Elah , and No Country for Old Men

2008; University of California Press; Volume: 61; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/fq.2008.61.3.24

1533-8630

Joan Mellen,

Film in Education and Therapy

Abstract Bringing together the DVD reissue of Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah, and Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men, this essay argues that the three films are indictments of the violent history of American militarism.