Color antithesis as one of the main semantic concepts of Terrence Malick's film «Days of Heaven»
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The subject of the study is the color scheme, in particular the color antithesis, of Terrence Malick's film «Days of Heaven». The color palette of the film by Terrence Malick, a little-known director at the time of the film's release, caused mixed reviews, both positive and critical. First of all, the work interested the professional jury and viewers with its aesthetic side, so you can still find the opinion that the film «Days of Heaven» is one of the most beautiful in world cinema. The aesthetics of the film, indeed, cannot fail to interest in the originality of the artistic solution. It is important to note that the visual series of the film also performs a conceptually significant task. The object of the study is color as a meaning-forming concept. Color plays a vital role in all spheres of human life, but in the visual arts it often acts as one of the most important components of the artistic solution, on which the basic understanding of the concept and idea of the entire work depends. The main research methods are analytical and comparative-historical. The perception of color and conceptual approaches to the coloristic solution of the film «Days of Heaven», are analyzed. The comparative historical approach is manifested through intertextuality and significant allusions. Terrence Malick's film may be of interest to a modern Russian viewer not only from an aesthetic point of view, but also due to the fact that it raises topical issues of the confrontation between man and nature and touches upon a whole range of social problems that America faced at the beginning of the 20th century. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the study of the main conceptual idea of the film, which follows from the color antithesis, which has practically not been studied by art historians.
Source: Философия и культура
Author: Natalia Ivanovna Bykova
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409569467