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Joel and Ethan Coen (Contemporary Film Directors)

By R. Barton Palmer

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0252071859, 9780252071850, 9780252029363, 0252029364
LCC
PN1998.3.C6635 P35 2004
Open Library ID
OL3681520M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8611680 bytes)
Pages
221\221
DPI
600
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
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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 trans-textural 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.

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