The philosophy of the Coen Brothers
By: edited by Mark T. Conard
Edition: Updated ed.
Series: The philosophy of popular culture
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813134451
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Mark T. Conard; title: The Coen Brand of Comedy and Tragedy. Raising Arizona as an American Comedy / Richard Gilmore; title: The Human Comedy Perpetuates Itself: Nihilism and Comedy in Coen Neo-Noir / Thomas S. Hibbs; title: Philosophies of Comedy in O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Douglas McFarland; title: No Country for Old Men: The Coens' Tragic Western / Richard Gilmore; title: Deceit, Desire, and Dark Comedy: Postmodern Dead Ends in Blood Simple / Alan Woolfolk; title: Ethics: Shame, Justice, and Virtue. "And It's Such a Beautiful Day!": Shame and Fargo / Rebecca Hanrahan and David Stearns; title: Justice, Power, and Love: The Political Philosophy of Intolerable Cruelty / Shai Biderman and William Devlin; title: Ethics, Heart, and Violence in Miller's Crossing / Bradley L. Herling; title: "Takin' 'er Easy for All Us Sinners": Laziness as a Virtue in The Big Lebowski / Matthew K. Douglass and Jerry L. Walls; title: No country for old men as moral philosophy / Douglas McFarland; title: Postmodernity, Interpretation, and the Construction of History. Heidegger and the Problem of Interpretation in Barton Fink / Mark T. Conard; title: The Past Is Now: History and The Hudsucker Proxy / Paul Coughlin; title: "A Homespun Murder Story": Film Noir and the Problem of Modernity in Fargo / Jerold J. Abrams; title: Existentialism, Alienation, and Despair. "What Kind of Man Are You?" The Coen Brothers and Existentialist Role Playing / Richard Gaughran; title: Being the Barber: Kierkegaardian Despair in The Man Who Wasn't There / Karen D. Hoffman; title: Thinking beyond the Failed Community: Blood Simple and The Man Who Wasn't There / R. Barton Palmer; title: God, Man, and Nature; title: How job begat larry: the present situation in a serious man / K. L. Evans; title: "A Lead Ball of Justice": The Logic of Retribution and the Ethics of Instruction in True Grit / David LaRocca.