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Abrams, Ann Uhry. The Pilgrims and Pocahontas: Rival Myths of American Origin. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999.

Ansen, David. "Two Cultures Clash, And Two Lovers Leap." Newsweek 19 December 2005: 69.

Arnold, Gary. "A Whole 'New World' of Problems; Visually Stunning Imagery Can't Replace Poor Chemistry." Washington Times 20 January 2006: D8.

Baker, Tom. "'There is that in her I do not know'." Daily Yomiuri 20 April 2006: 17.

Barbour, Philip L. Pocahontas and Her World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.

Bayles, Martha. "Pocahontas in Love." Weekly Standard 20 February 2006.

Burgoyne, Robert. "The Columbian Exchange: Pocahontas and The New World." Screening the Past 25 (September 2009). http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/25/pocahontas-new-world.html

Buscombe, Edward. "What's New in the New World?" Film Quarterly 62.3 (2009): 35-40.

Buscombe, Edward. "Injuns!" Native Americans in the Movies. London: Reaktion, 2006.

Carnes, Marc C., ed. Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies. New York: H.Holt, 1995.

Chocano, Carina. “The New World.“ Los Angeles Times 23 December 2005.

Clinton, Paul. “Review: O tedious ‘New World.’” CNN.com 20 January 2006.

Corliss, Richard. "The New World." Time 19 December 2005: 140.

Custalow, Linwood “Little Bear,” and Angela L. Daniel “Silver Star." The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History. Golden: Fulcrum, 2007.

D'Entremont, John. Rev. of The New World, by Terrence Malick. Journal of American History 94.3 (2007): 1023-26.

Dargis, Manohla. “When Virginia was Eden, and Other Tales of History.” New York Times 23 December 2005.

Ebert, Roger. “The New World.” Rogerebert.com 20 January 2006.

Faery, Rebecca Blevins. Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex in the Shaping of an American Nation. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1999.

Fiedler, Leslie A. The Return of the Vanishing American. New York: Stein and Day, 1968.

Foreman, Alexa, updated by R. Barton Palmer. "Terrence Malick.” Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Lu-Mi/Malick-Terrence.html

French, Philip. “The New World.” The Observer 29 January 2006.

Gould, Philip. "The Pocahontas Story in Early America." Prospects 24 (1999): 99-116.

Gunn Allen, Paula. Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1994.

Hoberman, J. "Paradise Now." Village Voice 8 March 2006: 36-38.

Hoberman, J. “Mr and Mrs. Smith.” Village Voice 20 December 2005. http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-12-13/film/mr-and-mrs-smith/

Horn, James. A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

Hulme, Peter. "John Smith and Pocahontas." Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797. London: Methuen, 1986. 137-73.

Hunter, Stephen. “On the Far Horizon, ‘The New World ‘ Slowly Emerges.” Washingtonpost.com 20 January 2006.

Johnson, Brian D . "Walking the Thin Red Line with Pocahontas." Maclean's 23 January 2006.

Jones, K. "The New World: Terrence Malick's Sublime Vision -- and Its Limits." Film Comment 42.2 (2006): 24-29.

Kauffmann, Stanley. "Settlers and Unsettlers -- In The New World, Terrence Malick is once again a better philosopher than director." New Republic 13 February 2006): 24.

Keiser, Albert. "The Pocahontas Legend." The Indian in American Literature. New York: Oxford UP, 1933. 1-9. (New York: Octagon Books, 1970.)

Killsback, Leo. Rev. of The New World, by Terrence Malik. Wicazo Sa Review 21.2 (2006): 197-201.

Lane, Anthony. “The Other: ‘Munich,’ ‘Hidden’ and ‘The New World.” New Yorker 26 December 2005.

Larson, Charles R. American Indian Fiction. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1978. 17-33.

Lee, Hwanhee. “Terrence Malick.” Senses of Cinema. http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/malick/

Lemay, J. A. Leo. Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith? Athens: U of Georgia P, 1992.

The Literature of Justification: Jamestown

Macdonald, Iain. "Nature and the Will to Power in Terrence Malick's The New World." The Thin Red Line. Ed. David Davies. London: Routledge, 2009.

McCarthy, Todd. "A Tough Trail to Follow: The New World.” Variety 12 December 2005: 50-51.

Michaels, Lloyd. Terrence Malick. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2009.

Morrison, James. “Making Worlds, Making Pictures: Terrence Malick’s The New World.” Poetic Visions of America: The Cinema of Terrence Malick. Ed. Hannah Patterson. London: Wallflower, 2007.

Mossiker, Frances. Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend. New York: Knopf, 1976. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1996.)

Patterson, Hannah. The Cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic Visions of America. London: Wallflower Press, 2007.

Petrakis, John. "American Beginnings." Christian Century 10 January 2006: 49.

The Pocahontas Archive http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/pocahontas/

Powers, John. "American Dreams; American Dreams; Politics as Usual." Vogue February 2006: 160.

Repphun, Eric. "Look Out Through My Eyes: The Enchantments of Terrence Malick." pp. 21-23. http://escholarship.usyd.edu.au/journals/index.php/SSR/article/viewFile/711/703

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Rosenstone, Robert A. Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995.

Rountree, Helen C. Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2005.

Rountree, Helen. Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1990.

Rountree, Helen. The Powhatan Indians of Virginia. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1989.

Rybin, Steven M. "The Historical Thought of Film: Terrence Malick and Philosophical Cinema." Ph.d diss. Ohio University, 2009. http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi?acc_num=ohiou1241801377

Rybin, Steven. "Voicing Meaning: On Terrence Malick's Characters." Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy. Ed. Thomas Deane Tucker and Stuart Kendall. New York: Continuum, 2011.

Schwarzbaum, Lisa. “The New World.” Entertainment Weekly.com 18 January 2006.

Sinnerbrink, Robert. "From Mythic History to Cinematic Poetry: Terrence Malick’s The New World Viewed." Screening the Past (December 2009). http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/26/early-europe/the-new-world.html

Smith, John. A True Relation of Such Occurrences of Noate as Hath Happened in Virginia. London, 1608. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/jamestown-browse?id=J1007

Smith, John. A True Relation of Such Occurrences of Noate as Hath Happened in Virginia. London, 1608. (The Complete Works of John Smith. Ed. Philip L. Barbour. Vol. 1. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1986.)

Smith, John. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles. London, 1624. http://books.google.com/books?id=9TQbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA209&dq=#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Smith, John. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles. London, 1624. (The Complete Works of John Smith. Ed. Philip L. Barbour. Vol. 2. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1986.)

Sterritt, David. "Film, Philosophy, and Terrence Malick's 'The New World'." Chronicle of Higher Education 6 January 2006: B12.

Stevens, Dana. “Malick in Wonderland.” Slate.com 20 January 2006.

Taubin, Amy. "The New World." Sight and Sound 16.2 (2006): 44-48.

Terrence Malick http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Lu-Mi/Malick-Terrence.html

Tilton, Robert S. Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.

Tratner, Michael. "Translating Values: Mercantilism and the Many "Biographies" of Pocahontas." Biography 32.1 (2009): 128-36.

Wasowicz, Laura. "The Children's Pocahontas: From Gentle Child of the Wild to All-American Heroine." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 105.2 (1995): 377-415.

Young, Philip. "The Mother of Us All: Pocahontas Reconsidered." Kenyon Review 24.3 (1962): 391-415. (Three Bags Full. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1967. 175-203.)

Zacharek, Stephanie. “The New World.” Salon.com 23 December 2005.