Mcbride Joseph
Mcbride Joseph - The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According To The Coen Brothers - Paperback
Mcbride Joseph - The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According To The Coen Brothers - Paperback
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Description: The Coen Bros. have attracted a wide following and been rewarded with Oscars and other honors. Some of their films are cult favorites and box office hits such as Fargo The Big Lebowski and No Country for Old Men. Yet the team of filmmaking brothers remains misunderstood in some circles. Ethan and Joel Coen deliberately unsettle conventional expectations and raise disturbing questions about human nature while mischievously mixing film genres and styles. Their films display shocking tonal shifts as they blend comedy and drama and most controversially comedy and violence. This potent m lange of themes and stylistic approaches makes the Coens films adventurous unpredictable probes into contemporary social anxieties. As brilliant satirists they are heirs to Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder. But they resist easy definition and raise the ire of some critics who like films to fit more comfortably into preexisting formats. Film historian and critic Joseph Mc Bride author of acclaimed biographies of Frank Capra John Ford and Steven Spielberg along with critical studies of Orson Welles Ernst Lubitsch and Wilder jousts with the Coens detractors while defining the filmmakers freshness and originality. The quirkily individualistic Coens are the kind of personal filmmakers the increasingly conglomerated American cinema rarely fosters anymore and this critical study illuminates their artistic personalities and contributions.
Title: The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According To The Coen Brothers
Author(s): Mcbride Joseph
Publisher: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781839983313
Pages: 118 Pages
Publication Date: 3/1/2022
Series: Anthem Film and Culture
Category: Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers
Description: The Coen Bros. have attracted a wide following and been rewarded with Oscars and other honors. Some of their films are cult favorites and box office hits such as Fargo The Big Lebowski and No Country for Old Men. Yet the team of filmmaking brothers remains misunderstood in some circles. Ethan and Joel Coen deliberately unsettle conventional expectations and raise disturbing questions about human nature while mischievously mixing film genres and styles. Their films display shocking tonal shifts as they blend comedy and drama and most controversially comedy and violence. This potent m lange of themes and stylistic approaches makes the Coens films adventurous unpredictable probes into contemporary social anxieties. As brilliant satirists they are heirs to Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder. But they resist easy definition and raise the ire of some critics who like films to fit more comfortably into preexisting formats. Film historian and critic Joseph Mc Bride author of acclaimed biographies of Frank Capra John Ford and Steven Spielberg along with critical studies of Orson Welles Ernst Lubitsch and Wilder jousts with the Coens detractors while defining the filmmakers freshness and originality. The quirkily individualistic Coens are the kind of personal filmmakers the increasingly conglomerated American cinema rarely fosters anymore and this critical study illuminates their artistic personalities and contributions.
Title: The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According To The Coen Brothers
Author(s): Mcbride Joseph
Publisher: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781839983313
Pages: 118 Pages
Publication Date: 3/1/2022
Series: Anthem Film and Culture
Category: Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers
