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The Coen Brothers America
Author | : M. Keith Booker |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2019-05-24 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781538120873 |
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From Blood Simple and Raising Arizona to Inside Llewyn Davis and Hail, Caesar!, the films of Joel and Ethan Coen represent a sort of alternate reality of America. The author explores how the settings—geographical, cultural, and historical—of their films provide viewers with slightly skewed, though no less true, perspectives of life American life.
The Cinema of the Coen Brothers
Author | : Jeffrey Adams |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780231850810 |
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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 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. Pointing to the pulp fiction of Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler, the study appreciates the postmodern aesthetics of the Coens' intertextual creativity.
The Coen Brothers and American Roots Music
Author | : Jesse Gerlach Ulmer |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2023-04-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781476650425 |
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For more than three decades, Joel and Ethan Coen have produced some of the most memorable and influential American roots music soundtracks in film history. From Raising Arizona (1987) to O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) to Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), the Coens, along with musical archivist and producer T-Bone Burnett, have curated half-forgotten yet unforgettable genres, artists and songs from America's cultural past for new audiences. This book is the first devoted to giving a full account of this rich cinematic legacy.
The Whole Durn Human Comedy
Author | : Joseph McBride |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2022-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1839983310 |
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The Coen Bros. have attracted a wide following and been rewarded with Oscars and other honors, and some of their films are cult favorites and boxoffice hits, such as FARGO, THE BIG LEBOWSKI, and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. Yet the team of filmmaking brothers remains misunderstood in some circles. Ethan and Joel Coen deliberately unsettle conventional expectations and raise disturbing questions about human nature while mischievously mixing film genres and styles. Their films display shocking tonal shifts as they blend comedy and drama and, most controversially, comedy and violence. This potent mélange of themes and stylistic approaches makes the Coens' films adventurous, unpredictable probes into contemporary social anxieties; as brilliant satirists they are heirs to Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder. But they resist easy definition and raise the ire of some critics who like films to fit more comfortably into preexisting formats. Film historian and critic Joseph McBride -- author of acclaimed biographies of Frank Capra, John Ford, and Steven Spielberg, along with critical studies of Orson Welles, Ernst Lubitsch, and Wilder -- jousts with the Coens' detractors while defining the filmmakers' freshness and originality. The quirkily individualistic Coens are the kind of personal filmmakers the increasingly conglomerated American cinema rarely fosters anymore, and this critical study illuminates their artistic personalities and contributions.
The Coen Brothers Encyclopedia
Author | : Lynnea Chapman King |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2014-10-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780810885776 |
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This encyclopedia focuses on all aspects of the Coen Brothers’ work—from writing and directing Blood Simple (1983) to their involvement in the forthcoming television series, Fargo. This extensive reference contains material on all of the films the brothers have written, produced, and directed, as well as their sideline ventures.
Coen Brothers Virgin Film
Author | : Eddie Robson |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2011-07-31 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780753547700 |
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Joel and Ethan Coen make up one of the most original and unconventional movie-making partnerships to come out of America at the end of the 20th century. From their debut tour de force Blood Simple to the hugely acclaimed The Man Who Wasn't There, the brothers' films have attracted critical kudos and commercial success in equal measure due to their irreverent, individual and technically virtuoso nature. Each of their films defies categorisation, yet you're never in any doubt you're watching a Coen brothers movie. This exploration of the movie career of Hollywood's best-loved outsiders charts their rise from cult favourites to box-office contenders, whilst combining indispensable reference material and critical analysis of their films.
The Coen Brothers
Author | : Joel Coen,Ethan Coen |
Publsiher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1578068894 |
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Collected interviews with the quirky and distinctive writer/director team of such films as Raising Arizona, Intolerable Cruelty, and Barton Fink
The Coen Brothers
Author | : Josh Levine |
Publsiher | : ECW Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781550224245 |
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Full biography of the renowned film directors, the Coen brothers, and how they came to write, shoot, and direct some of the most gruesome, exhilarating, and funniest films of our time, including Barton Fink, Fargo, Blood Simple and the forthcoming George Clooney film O Brother, Where Art Thou?