[PDF] Joel And Ethan Coen eBook

Author : R. Barton Palmer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0252054148

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With landmark films such as Fargo, O Brother Where art Thou?, Blood Simple, and Raising Arizona, the Coen brothers have achieved both critical and commercial success. Proving the existence of a viable market for "small" films that are also intellectually rewarding, their work has exploded generic conventions amid rich webs of transtextual references. R. Barton Palmer argues that the Coen oeuvre forms a central element in what might be called postmodernist filmmaking. Mixing high and low cultural sources and blurring genres like noir and comedy, the use of pastiche and anti-realist elements in films such as The Hudsucker Proxy and Barton Fink clearly fit the postmodernist paradigm. Palmer argues that for a full understanding of the Coen brothers' unique position within film culture, it is important to see how they have developed a new type of text within general postmodernist practice that Palmer terms commercial/independent. Analyzing their substantial body of work from this "generic" framework is the central focus of this book.

Author : Joel Coen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781578068890

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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

Author : Paul A. Woods
Publisher : Plexus Publishing (UK)
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Comprising an anthology of essays this volume considers the work of the Coen brothers. It features writing on all of their films including 'Intolerable Cruelty'. Previous ed.: 1999.

Author : Ethan Coen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061684880

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In Gates of Eden, Ethan Coen exhibits on the printed page the striking, twisted, yet devastatingly on-target vision of modern American life familiar from his movies. The world within the world we live in comes alive in fourteen brazenly original tragicomic short stories—from the Midwest mob war that fizzles due to the principals' ineptness to the trials of a deaf private eye with a blind client to a fugitive's heartbreaking explanation for having beheaded his wife, alarming in that it almost makes sense.

Author : Mark T. Conard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2008-12-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813138698

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“Written for both fans of the Coen brothers and the philosophically curious, without the technical language . . . educational and entertaining.” —Library Journal Joel and Ethan Coen have made films that redefined the gangster movie, the screwball comedy, the fable, and the film noir, but no matter what genre they’re playing with, they consistently focus on the struggles of complex characters to understand themselves and their places in the strange worlds they inhabit. To borrow a phrase from Barton Fink, all Coen films explore “the life of the mind” and show that the human condition can often be simultaneously comic and tragic, profound and absurd. The essays in this book explore the challenging moral and philosophical terrain of the Coen repertoire. Several address how Coen films often share film noir’s essential philosophical assumptions: power corrupts, evil is real, and human control of fate is an illusion. In Fargo, not even Minnesota’s blankets of snow can hide Jerry Lundegaard’s crimes or brighten his long, dark night of the soul. The tale of love, marriage, betrayal, and divorce in Intolerable Cruelty transcends the plight of the characters to illuminate competing theories of justice. Even in lighter fare, such as Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski, the comedy emerges from characters’ journeys to the brink of an amoral abyss. However, the Coens often knowingly and gleefully subvert conventions and occasionally offer symbolic rebirths and other hopeful outcomes. At the end of The Big Lebowski, for example, the Dude abides, his laziness has become a virtue, and the human comedy is perpetuating itself with the promised arrival of a newborn Lebowski. The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers sheds new light on the work of these cinematic visionaries. From Blood Simple to No Country for Old Men, the Coens’ characters look for answers—though in some cases, their quest for answers leads, at best, only to more questions.

Author : Ellen Cheshire
Publisher : No Exit Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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The revised and updated edition of this pocket-guide to perhaps the finest filmmakers working in America today. Features an introductory essay on the Coens along with an analysis and discussions of each of their films, including a consideration of their latest works Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers.

Author : Erica Rowell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0810858509

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The Brothers Grim examines the inner workings of the Coens' body of work, discussing a movie in terms of its primary themes, social and political contexts, narrative techniques, influences, relationship to their other films, and the Coens' referential modus operandi that retreads cinema, literature, history, philosophy, and art to amplify their films' themes.

Author : Peter Kšrte
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780879109639

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(Limelight). An analysis of the Coen oeuvre through O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). The authors, German film critics, include a previously unpublished interview with the filmmaking brothers on their off-center work in genres they both satirize and pay tribute to: film noir, horror, screwball comedy, and buddy escapade. As Ethan Coen says: "We grew up in America, and we tell American stories in American settings within American frames of reference. Perhaps our way of reflecting our system is more comprehensible to non-Americans because they already see the system as something alien." Well illustrated.

Author : Joel Coen
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 1989-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780312021689

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Director Joel Coen's and producer Ethan Coen's Blood Simple (1984, River Road Prods/Circle Releasing/Palace) is a contemporary noir thriller set in Texas. A taut, convoluted plot and imaginative direction made the independent release a word-of-mouth hit and established the Coen brothers' reputation for originality. Actors John Getz, Frances McDormand, and Dan Hedaya appear in the story in which a woman commits adultery, and her enraged husband hires a killer for revenge. Blackmail, violence, and mistaken assumptions lead to an edgy, exhilarating climax.

Author : Ethan Coen
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 2002-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0571210961

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These four early works by the internationally lauded filmmaking team deal with the subject for which they are best known: corruption and crime in situations that combine the real and the surreal with the hilarious. Of the scripts included here, Barton Fink--an intense look at the psychological ruin of a New York playwright trying to make it in 1940s Hollywood--is a masterful culmination of these themes.