{"product_id":"coen-9781481302838","title":"Coen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores how Coen brothers’ films emerge as morality tales, set in a mythological American landscape, that critique greed and self-interest. \u003cem\u003eCoen\u003c\/em\u003e teaches its readers something new about religion, about film, and about the kind of world-making that each claims to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaken as a whole, the essays in Coen offer a lively conversation (indeed, the contributors edited one another's essays, and several of the published texts contain helpful intertextual comments) about the ways in which filmmakers, audiences, and scholars all imagine interactions between film and religion. As a compilation of criticism on the Coen filmography, the collection organizes and reframes an expansive bibliography. As works of scholarship on religion, its essays imaginatively connect critical theory of religion with cinema studies scholarship, applied in clever and illuminating readings of the Coens' oeuvre. -- Geoffrey Pollick -- The Revealer\u003cbr\u003e...[ Coen ] offers an unexpected number of insights beyond the Coens and their films. -- Christian Wessely, Journal for Religion, Film and Media\u003cbr\u003eThis immensely readable work is a stunning success of eloquent writers tackling riveting topics. Each of the Coen brothers' movies, the hilarious and the harrowing treated in chronological order, receives careful critical analysis that sheds blazing light on the dark genius of these filmmakers. -- Terry Lindvall -- Journal of the American Academy of Religion\u003cbr\u003eA work that sets out in search of the Coens' cinematic soul and returns with a raft of compelling insights -- Richard Goodwin -- Journal of Religion and Film\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Are the Coen Brothers Religious Filmmakers? Or How Simple Is  Blood Simple ? Act One: The Early Films: Reading Religion as... 1. Morality in  Raising Arizona 2. Theology in  Millerâs Crossing 3. World Creation in  Barton Fink 4. Community in  The Hudsucker Proxy  First Intermission: So  Are the Coen Brothers Religious Filmmakers?  Fargo between Christian Moralism and Post-Modern Irony Act Two: The Middle Films: Analyzing Religion and... 5. Fandom in  The Big Lebowski 6. Race in  O Brother, Where Art Thou? 7. Money in  Intolerable Cruelty and  The Ladykillers 8. The State in  Burn after Reading  Second Intermission: Are the Coen Brothers Formally Coherent?  No Country for Old Men between Time and Eternity Act Three: The Later Films: Theorizing... 9. Transcendence in The Man Who Wasnât There 10. Hermeneutics in  A Serious Man 11. Death in  True Grit 12. Absence in  Inside Llewyn Davis  Epilogue: Hail, Caesar?","brand":"Baylor University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040552157527,"sku":"9781481302838","price":36.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781481302838.jpg?v=1750947092","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/coen-9781481302838","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}