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Author(s): Mark T. Conard
ISBN(s): 9780813173238, 081317323X
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.41 MB
Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 081317323X

ISBN 13: 9780813173238 

Author: Mark T. Conard

Many critics agree that Joel and Ethan Coen are one of the most visionary and idiosyncratic filmmaking teams of the last three decades. Combining thoughtful eccentricity, wry humor, irony, and often brutal violence, the Coen brothers have crafted a style of filmmaking that pays tribute to classic American movie genres yet maintains a distinctly postmodern feel. Since arriving on the film scene, the Coens have amassed an impressive body of work that has garnered them critical acclaim and a devote

Table of contents:

Part 1: The Coen Brand of Comedy and Tragedy

  • Raising Arizona as an American Comedy

  • The Human Comedy Perpetuates Itself: Nihilism and Comedy in Coen Neo-Noir

  • Philosophies of Comedy in O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  • No Country for Old Men: The Coens’ Tragic Western

  • Deceit, Desire, and Dark Comedy: Postmodern Dead Ends in Blood Simple

Part 2: Ethics: Shame, Justice, and Virtue

  • “And It’s Such a Beautiful Day!” Shame and Fargo

  • Justice, Power, and Love: The Political Philosophy of Intolerable Cruelty

  • Ethics, Heart, and Violence in Miller’s Crossing

  • “Takin’er Easy for All Us Sinners”: Laziness as a Virtue in The Big Lebowski

  • No Country for Old Men as Moral Philosophy

Part 3: Postmodernity, Interpretation, and the Construction of History

  • Heidegger and the Problem of Interpretation in Barton Fink

  • The Past Is Now: History and The Hudsucker Proxy

  • “A Homespun Murder Story”: Film Noir and the Problem of Modernity in Fargo

Part 4: Existentialism, Alienation, and Despair

  • “What Kind of Man Are You?” The Coen Brothers and Existentialist Role Playing

  • Being the Barber: Kierkegaardian Despair in The Man Who Wasn’t There

  • Thinking beyond the Failed Community: Blood Simple and The Man Who Wasn’t There

Part 5: God, Man, and Nature

  • How Job Begat Larry: The Present Situation in A Serious Man

  • “A Lead Ball of Justice”: The Logic of Retribution and the Ethics of Instruction in True Grit

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