num_pages: 320
description: Fans . . . will appreciate this oversized guide to their offbeat oeuvre.  NewsdayA great gift for any Coen fan-boy or fan-girl in your life. NPRs Pop Culture Happy HourFilled with glossy well-chosen pictures as well as thoughtful eloquent analysis.  FilmmakerEthan and Joel Coen have cultivated a bleakly comical instantly recognizable voice in modern American cinema. They have given movie fans classics of all typescomedy history drama romance. Their movies have a distinctive style and point of hilarious sad thoughtful musical sometimes all at once. When someone says a movie is Coen Brotherslike every serious movie lover knows exactly what they mean.In The Coen This Book Really Ties the Films Together  film critic Adam Nayman carefully sifts through their complex cinematic universe in an effort to plot as he puts it some Grand Unified Theory of Coen-ness. He covers all their popular award-winning and unforgettable The book combines critical textbiography close film analysis and enlightening interviews with key Coen collaboratorswith a visual aesthetic that honors the Coens singular mix of darkness and levity. Featuring film stills beautiful and evocative illustrations punchy infographics and hard insight this book will be the definitive exploration of the Coen brothers oeuvre.
language: English
title: The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together
publisher: Abrams