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The Cinema of the Coen Brothers: Hard-Boiled Entertainments
Jeffrey Adams
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Paperback. Series: Directors' Cuts. Num Pages: 240 pages, 24 b&w. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Directors' Cuts
Condition
New
Weight
335g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231174619
SKU
V9780231174619
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About Jeffrey Adams
Jeffrey Adams is associate professor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the editor of Morike's Muses: Critical Essays on Eduard Morike and Mimetic Desire: Narcissism in German Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism.
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