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Constructing the Coens
eBook - From Blood Simple to Inside Llewyn Davis
ISBN/EAN: 9781442244856
Umbreit-Nr.: 2147865
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 192 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 02.02.2015
Auflage: 1/2015
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <span><span>The films of Ethan and Joel Coen have been embraced by mainstream audiences, but also have been subject to intense scrutiny by critics and cinema scholars. Movies such as</span><span>Barton Fink</span><span>,</span><span>The Hudsucker Proxy</span><span>, and</span><span>Raising Arizona</span><span> represent the filmmakers postmodern tendencies, a subject many academics have written about at length. But is it enough to reduce their features as expressions of postmodernism or are there other ways of viewing their worknot only their individual films but their entire output as a collective whole?<br><br>In</span><span>Constructing the Coens: From</span><span> Blood Simple</span><span>to</span><span> Inside Llewyn Davis, Allen H. Redmon looks beyond the postmodern sensibilities of every film written and directed by the Coens to find an unexpected range of recurring ideas expressed in and about contemporary film. In this volume, Redmon tackles all of the films in the Coen brothers canon by examiningamong other topicsnarrative coherence in</span><span>The Man Who Wasnt There</span><span>, intertextuality in</span><span>No Country for Old Men</span><span>, and sexuality in</span><span> Burn after Reading</span><span>and</span><span>O Brother, Where Art Thou?</span><span> Additional chapters look at their films through the prisms of gender studies, adaptation studies, and a constructivist sensibility weaved throughout their work.<br><br>Considering the whole of the Coens output, as well as many of the topics being discussed in contemporary film studies, this book challenges viewers to reexamine their initial responses to these movies. By engaging both the familiar and foreign elements in each film,</span><span>Constructing the Coens</span><span> will appeal to fans of the brothers cinema, but also to students and scholars of film theory, adaptation studies, queer theory, and gender studies.</span></span>
- Kurztext
- <span><span>This book combines recent developments in cognitive film theory, genre studies, and adaptation theory to isolate the ways in which the Coens encourage spectators to participate in the ongoing construction of their movies. </span></span>
- Autorenportrait
- <span><span>The Coens craft films that are not easily solved, because a Coen brothers¿ film is never one thing even when it presents itself as just that. Individual moments are clear enough, but it becomes difficult to find a balanced sum, because the brothers simply employ too many different formulas. This book combines recent developments in cognitive film theory, genre studies, and adaptation theory to isolate the ways in which the Coens encourage spectators to participate in the ongoing construction of their movies. The duo¿s explicit and extensive use of openly admitted sources emboldens audiences to adapt their films even after the films end.</span></span> <span></span>