The Brothers Coen
Subtitle: unique characters of violence
By: Ryan P. Doom.
Series: Modern filmmakers; Introduction: violently original --"Murder most simple": Blood simple -- "Babies, bikers, and buffoons": Raising Arizona -- "The professional kill": Miller's crossing -- "Life of the imaginary mind": Barton Fink -- "Reinventing the circle of suicide": The Hudsucker proxy -- "What's the deal with greed and wood chippers?": Fargo -- "Abiding by Chandler": The big Lebowski -- "Three convicts and the KKK": O brother, where art thou? -- "Cutting Cain's law": The man who wasn't there -- "Cruel intentions": Intolerable cruelty -- "The killing joke": The ladykillers -- "The unrelenting country": No country for old men -- "Burning paranoia": Burn after reading
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313355981; 9780313355998
Subjects: Coen, Joel -- Criticism and interpretation; Coen, Ethan -- Criticism and interpretation; Violence in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.