The philosophy of the Coen Brothers

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Table of Contents

Introduction / Mark T. Conard
The Coen Brand of Comedy and Tragedy. Raising Arizona as an American Comedy / Richard Gilmore
The Human Comedy Perpetuates Itself: Nihilism and Comedy in Coen Neo-Noir / Thomas S. Hibbs
Philosophies of Comedy in O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Douglas McFarland
No Country for Old Men: The Coens' Tragic Western / Richard Gilmore
Deceit, Desire, and Dark Comedy: Postmodern Dead Ends in Blood Simple / Alan Woolfolk
Ethics: Shame, Justice, and Virtue. "And It's Such a Beautiful Day!": Shame and Fargo / Rebecca Hanrahan and David Stearns
Justice, Power, and Love: The Political Philosophy of Intolerable Cruelty / Shai Biderman and William Devlin
Ethics, Heart, and Violence in Miller's Crossing / Bradley L. Herling
"Takin' 'er Easy for All Us Sinners": Laziness as a Virtue in The Big Lebowski / Matthew K. Douglass and Jerry L. Walls
No country for old men as moral philosophy / Douglas McFarland
Postmodernity, Interpretation, and the Construction of History. Heidegger and the Problem of Interpretation in Barton Fink / Mark T. Conard
The Past Is Now: History and The Hudsucker Proxy / Paul Coughlin
"A Homespun Murder Story": Film Noir and the Problem of Modernity in Fargo / Jerold J. Abrams
Existentialism, Alienation, and Despair. "What Kind of Man Are You?" The Coen Brothers and Existentialist Role Playing / Richard Gaughran
Being the Barber: Kierkegaardian Despair in The Man Who Wasn't There / Karen D. Hoffman
Thinking beyond the Failed Community: Blood Simple and The Man Who Wasn't There / R. Barton Palmer
God, Man, and Nature
How job begat larry: the present situation in a serious man / K. L. Evans
"A Lead Ball of Justice": The Logic of Retribution and the Ethics of Instruction in True Grit / David LaRocca.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Lexington, Ky
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The philosophy of popular culture

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791.4302/330922
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PN1998.3.C6635 P45 2012, PN1998.3.C6635P45

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p. cm.

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OL25283202M
ISBN 13
9780813134451
LCCN
2012013546
OCLC/WorldCat
786002569

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