The cinema of the Coen brothers : hard-boiled entertainments

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The cinema of the Coen brothers : hard-boiled entertainments

Title remainder

hard-boiled entertainments

Statement of responsibility

Jeffrey Adams

Creator

• Adams, Jeffrey Todd

Subject

• Coen, Ethan -- Criticism and interpretation
• Coen, Ethan, 1957-
• Coen, Joel
• Coen, Joel -- Criticism and interpretation
• Coen, Joel, 1954-
• Motion picture producers and directors -- United States
• Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- United States
• Coen, Ethan

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--

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• Directors' cuts

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contains biographical information

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Directors' Cuts