The Coen Brothers' America /
"For more than three decades, Joel and Ethan Coen have produced some of the most unique and thought-provoking works in modern cinema. In broad comedies such as Raising Arizona, violent thrillers like No Country for Old Men, and black comedies such as Fargo, the filmmakers have offered brilliant...
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Hollywood as alternate reality in the films of the Coen brothers
- Paint it black: film noir, Blood Simple, and The Man Who Wasn't There
- What's up, doc?: anarchic comedy in Raising Arizona, The Ladykillers, and Burn after Reading
- Joel and Ethan do Hammett and Chandler: Miller's Crossing, The Big Lebowski, and the hard-boiled tradition
- How the sausage gets made: inside the Hollywood film industry in Barton Fink and Hail, Caesar!
- Star-crossed lovers: The Hudsucker Proxy, Intolerable Cruelty, and the American tradition of screwball comedy
- Laughing to keep from dying in the suburbs: black comedy in Fargo and A Serious Man
- From soggy bottom to Greenwich Village: American music in O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Inside Llewyn Davis
- Into the sunset: variations on the western in No country for Old Men and True Grit.