Death, Wealth, and Guilt: An Analysis of There Will be Blood

  • Daniel Sullivan
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Abstract

P. T. Anderson’s film There Will Be Blood (2007) has been praised and awarded for its technical execution, its cinematography, production design, and for the Academy Award-winning performance of its lead actor, Daniel Day-Lewis. While these technical aspects of the film are indeed masterful and worthy of study, the film’s narrative—as rewritten by Anderson from the Upton Sinclair novel Oil! (1927/1997)—is also ingenious and deserving of analysis.

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Personal Legacy Mortality Salience Vintage Book Modern Psychology Terror Management Theory 
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