Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order

ISBN-13: 9781481302838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 325 str.

Elijah Siegler; Elijah Siegler

Opis

Coen teaches its readers something new about religion, about film, and about the kind of world-making that each claims to be.--Richard Goodwin "Journal of Religion and Film"

Spis treści

• Introduction: 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 Miller's 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 Wasn't There
• 10. Hermeneutics in A Serious Man
• 11. Death in True Grit
• 12. Absence in Inside Llewyn Davis
• Epilogue: Hail, Caesar?