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Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order
Elijah Siegler (Ed.)
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Paperback. Editor(s): Siegler, Elijah. Num Pages: 333 pages. BIC Classification: APFB; HRA; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 270 x 23. Weight in Grams: 444.
Raising Arizona , Fargo , The Big Lebowski , No Country for Old Men , True Grit aJoel and Ethan Coen make movies. They make movies that matter. But do these movies matter for religion? Coen is a masterful response to this question of religious significance that neither imposes alien orthodoxy nor consigns the Coens to religious insignificance. The Coen movies discussed each receive a chapter-length investigation of the specific film's relation to the religious. Far more than just documenting religion in all Coen filmsafrom blink-and you'll-miss-them biblical references to gospel tunes framing the soundtrackathe ... Read more
Raising Arizona , Fargo , The Big Lebowski , No Country for Old Men , True Grit aJoel and Ethan Coen make movies. They make movies that matter. But do these movies matter for religion? Coen is a masterful response to this question of religious significance that neither imposes alien orthodoxy nor consigns the Coens to religious insignificance. The Coen movies discussed each receive a chapter-length investigation of the specific film's relation to the religious. Far more than just documenting religion in all Coen filmsafrom blink-and you'll-miss-them biblical references to gospel tunes framing the soundtrackathe ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
443 g
Number of Pages
325
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9781481302838
SKU
V9781481302838
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About Elijah Siegler (Ed.)
Elijah Siegler is Associate Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at The College of Charleston.
Reviews for Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order
Taken as a whole, the essays in Coen offer a lively conversation (indeed, the contributors edited one another's essays, and several of the published texts contain helpful intertextual comments) about the ways in which filmmakers, audiences, and scholars all imagine interactions between film and religion. As a compilation of criticism on the Coen filmography, the collection organizes and reframes an ... Read more