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Coen, Joel -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Coen, Ethan -- Criticism and interpretation.
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1 online resource (vii, 296 pages) |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part -- 1: The Coen Brand of Comedy and Tragedy; Part -- 2: Ethics: Shame, Justice, and Virtue; Part -- 3: Postmodernity, Interpretation, and the Construction of History; Part -- 4: Existentialism, Alienation, and Despair; List of Contributors; Index. |
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Raising Arizona as an American comedy / Richard Gilmore -- The human comedy perpetuates itself : nihilism and comedy in Coen neo-noir / Thomas S. Hibbs -- Philosophies of comedy in O brother, where art thou? / Douglas McFarland -- No country for old men : the Coens' tragic western / Richard Gilmore -- Deceit, desire, and dark comedy : postmodern dead ends in Blood simple / Alan Woolfolk -- "And it's such a beautiful day!" : shame and Fargo / Rebecca Hanrahan and David Stearns -- Justice, power, and love : the political philosophy of Intolerable cruelty / Shai Biderman and William J. Devlin -- Ethics, heart, and violence in Miller's Crossing / Bradley L. Herling -- "Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners" : laziness as a virtue in The big Lebowski / Matthew K. Douglass and Jerry L. Walls -- No country for old men as moral philosophy / Douglas McFarland -- Heidegger and the problem of interpretation in Barton Fink / Mark T. Conard -- The past is now : history and The Hudsucker proxy / Paul Coughlin -- "A homespun murder story" : film noir and the problem of modernity in Fargo / Jerold J. Abrams -- "What kind of man are you?" : the Coen brothers and existentialist role playing / Richard Gaughran -- Being the barber : Kierkegaardian despair in The man who wasn't there / Karen D. Hoffman -- Thinking beyond the failed community : Blood simple and The man who wasn't there / R. Barton Palmer. |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Alt author |
Conard, Mark T., 1965- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780813173238 (electronic bk.) |
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081317323X (electronic bk.) |
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9780813138695 (electronic bk.) |
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0813138698 (electronic bk.) |
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128293743X |
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9781282937437 |
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9780813125268 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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081312526X (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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9780813134451 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0813134455 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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EB00787069 Recorded Books |
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