The Brothers Coen [[electronic resource] ] : unique characters of violence / / Ryan P. Doom

• Autore: Doom Ryan P
• Pubblicazione: Santa Barbara, Calif., : Praeger, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.4302/330922
• Soggetto topico: Violence in motion pictures
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Violently Original; 1 Murder Most Simple: Blood Simple (1985); 2 Babies, Bikers, and Buffoons: Raising Arizona (1987); 3 The Professional Kill: Miller's Crossing (1990); 4 Life of the Imaginary Mind: Barton Fink (1991); 5 Reinventing the Circle of Suicide: The Hudsucker Proxy (1994); 6 What's the Deal with Greed and Wood Chippers?: Fargo (1996); 7 Abiding by Chandler: The Big Lebowski (1998); 8 Three Convicts and the KKK: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000); 9 Cutting Cain's Law: The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) ; 10 Cruel Intentions: Intolerable Cruelty (2003)11 The Killing Joke: The Ladykillers (2004); 12 The Unrelenting Country: No Country for Old Men (2007); 13 Burning Paranoia: Burn After Reading (2008); Notes; Filmography; Academy Awards and Nominations; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Brothers Coen: Unique Characters of Violence spans the career of the two-time Oscar-winning producer/director team, exploring the theme of violence that runs through a genre-spanning body of work, from the neo-noir of Blood Simple to the brutal comedy Burn After Reading (2008).||In chapters focusing on major characters, Ryan Doom looks at the chaotic cinematic universe of the Coens, where violent acts inevitably have devastating, unintended consequences. The remarkable gallery of Coen characters are all here: hardboiled gangster Tom Regan from MillerÕs Crossing (1990), overmatched amateur
• Titolo autorizzato: The Brothers Coen
• ISBN: 1-282-56636-9; 0-313-35599-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459345703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Modern filmmakers.; Introduction: violently original -- Murder most simple: Blood simple (1985) -- Babies, bikers, and buffoons: Raising Arizona (1987) -- The professional kill: Miller's crossing (1990) -- Life of the imaginary mind: Barton Fink (1991) -- Reinventing the circle of suicide: The Hudsucker proxy (1994) -- What's the deal with greed and wood chippers?: Fargo (1996) -- Abiding by Chandler: The big Lebowski (1998) -- Three convicts and the KKK: O brother, where art thou? (2000) -- Cutting Cain's law: The man who wasn't there (2001) -- Cruel intentions: Intolerable cruelty (2003) -- The killing joke: The ladykillers (2004) -- The unrelenting country: No country for old men (2007) -- Burning paranoia: Burn after reading (2008)