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The cinema of the Coen brothers : hard-boiled entertainments / Jeffrey Adams.

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"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 rem...

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Main Author: Adams, Jeffrey Todd (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Series:Directors' cuts.
Subjects:
Coen, Joel > Criticism and interpretation.
Coen, Ethan > Criticism and interpretation.
Motion picture producers and directors > United States.
Motion pictures > Production and direction > United States.
Coen, Ethan.
Coen, Joel.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Motion pictures > Production and direction.
United States.
Coen, Ethan, > 1957-
Coen, Joel, > 1954-
Film.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of 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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