ISBN: 9780252071850

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 existenc… More...

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 transtextual 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. Media >, [PU: University of Illinois Press]<

2004, ISBN: 9780252071850

University of Illinois Press, Paperback, Auflage: Illustrated, 224 Seiten, Publiziert: 2004-06-18T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.31 kg, Books Global Store, Special Features, Books, Cin… More...

University of Illinois Press, Paperback, Auflage: Illustrated, 224 Seiten, Publiziert: 2004-06-18T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.31 kg, Books Global Store, Special Features, Books, Cinematography, Production & Technology, Film, Arts & Photography, Subjects, Direction & Production, History & Criticism, Performing Arts, Actors & Entertainers, Film, Television & Music, Biography, Film Directors, Philosophy, Medical, Legal & Social Sciences, Theatre & Performance Art, Press & Journalism, Media & Communication Industries, Communication Studies, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Format: Illustrated, University of Illinois Press, 2004<

2004, ISBN: 9780252071850

University of Illinois Press, 2004. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please … More...

University of Illinois Press, 2004. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:9780252071850, University of Illinois Press, 2004<