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Title:
The cinema of the Coen brothers : hard-boiled entertainments / Jeffrey Adams.
Author:
Adams, Jeffrey Todd, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]

©2015
Call Number:
PN1998.3.C6635 A63 2015
Abstract:
"The films of the Coen brothers have become a contemporary cultural phenomenon. Highly acclaimed and commercially successful, over the years their movies have attracted increasingly larger audiences and spawned a subculture of dedicated fans. Shunning fame and celebrity, Ethan and Joel Coen remain maverick filmmakers, producing and directing independent films outside the Hollywood mainstream in a unique style combining classic genres like film noir with black comedy to tell off-beat stories about America and the American Dream. This study surveys Oscar-winning films, such as Fargo (1996) and No Country for Old Men (2007), as well as cult favorites, including O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and The Big Lebowski (1998). Beginning with Blood Simple (1984), it examines major themes and generic constructs and offers diverse approaches to the Coens' enigmatic films."-- Publisher description.
ISBN:
9780231174619

9780231174602
Series:
Directors' Cuts

Directors' cuts.
Physical Description:
vii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
General Note:
"A Wallflower Press book."
Contents:
Blood Simple: 'It's the same old song' -- Raising Arizona: a state of mind -- Miller's crossing: 'a handsome movie about men in hats' -- Barton Fink: 'for the common man' -- The Hudsucker Proxy: a comedy of reinvention -- Fargo: in the land of tall tales -- The Big Lebowski: 'the dude abides' -- O Brother Where Art Thou?: the hayseed epic -- The Man Who Wasn't There: recreating classic film noir -- No Country for Old Men: darkness in the new west -- A Serious Man: parable and paradox -- Conclusion: the ends of the auteur -- Drawing conlcusions about Coen Brothers movies.
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