Joel and Ethan Coen
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Author
Publication
2004 - University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
51,750 words, Guess
Page Count
207 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3681520M
- ISBN-100252029364
- OCLC Control Number53900807
- OCLC Control Numberjoelethancoencon00palm
- Library of Congress Control Number2003026970
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- Goodreads4333407
- LibraryThing5691634
Classifications
- DDC791.4302/33/092273
- LCCPN1998.3.C6635 P35 2004
Description
"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 transtextural references. In Joel and Ethan Coen, R. Barton Palmer argues that the Coen oeuvre also 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 on this book."--Book cover.
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Series Statement
- Contemporary film directors
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