The Coen Brothers, Second Edition
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The Coen Brothers, Second Edition

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The Coen Brothers, Second Edition

About this book

Brought completely up to date, this insightful biography remains "a must for any self-respecting Coen fan" ( Screentrade ). This fully updated edition of the first biography of the Coen Brothers includes their complete work so far, from Blood Simple to Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), with a reassessment of their remarkable career as a whole. Joel and Ethan Coen have pulled off the ultimate balancing act. Despite having their movies financed and distributed by major studios, they have managed to remain true independents, rejecting commercial clichés and never giving up on their own fiercely idiosyncratic vision. While doing so, they have established themselves among the world's leading filmmakers.From their startling debut, Blood Simple (1984), all of their movies reveal a distinctive stamp: a flamboyant visual style, richly conceived characters, crisp dialogue, and brilliant casting. They have revitalized old Hollywood genres such as noir, screwball, and the western, giving them a contemporary sensibility. In this biography, Ronald Bergan traces the brothers' Jewish roots, their beginnings as film geeks in suburban Minneapolis, their battle to get their first feature made and released, through their early features and the movies of their maturity. He gives blow-by-blow accounts of the making of each movie. New chapters cover all those released since O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), with which the first edition of this book ended.

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Information

Publisher
Arcade
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781628725667
eBook ISBN
9781628726244
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video
INDEX
Abraham, F. Murray, 285
Allen, Woody, 20, 30, 44, 159, 183
Altman, Robert, 17, 21, 25, 148, 190, 281
Anderson, J. Todd, 91, 115, 129, 162, 194
Bardem, Javier, xiv, 28, 241–42, 245–46, 249, 251
Barenholtz, Ben, 85, 88, 94, 108–9
Barton Fink, 2, 12, 18, 22, 26–27, 29, 32–33, 43, 53, 68, 73, 75, 105, 110–12, 121, 124–38, 140, 141–42, 158, 162, 171, 177, 184, 188, 222, 225
Big Lebowski, The, 5, 7, 10, 21, 24–28, 33–34, 41, 46–47, 52, 60, 73, 75, 81, 86, 105, 112, 121, 136, 168, 176–93, 225, 238, 250, 255, 273
Blood Simple, xiii, 8–9, 11, 13, 21, 24–27, 32, 46, 53, 56, 58, 61–87, 88–91, 93, 95, 97, 102–3, 109, 112, 119–20, 133–34, 136, 139–40, 158–59, 163, 168, 171–72, 187, 238
Bridges, Jeff, 178, 181, 183, 186, 268, 270, 273, 277
Brolin, Josh, 240, 247–48, 269, 274, 292
Burn After Reading, xiv, 26, 168, 249–56
Burnett, T Bone, 284, 287
Burwell, Carter, 23, 115, 119–20, 161, 207, 228, 251, 278
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. AdCard
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction to the Second Edition
  10. Halftitle
  11. I: O, Brother!
  12. II: Kings of the Indies
  13. III: The Brothers Geek
  14. IV: First Blood
  15. V: Hi Stakes
  16. VI: Double Crossing
  17. VII: Hollywood Nuts
  18. VIII: CapraCoen
  19. IX: Yah! Yah!
  20. X: Cool Dudes
  21. XI: Odd Odyssey
  22. XII: James M. Coen
  23. XIII: Intolerable Hollywood Bowel Syndrome
  24. XIV: Blood Complex
  25. XV: A Comedy of Errors
  26. XVI: A Good Jew
  27. XVII: Pardners
  28. XVIII: A Folk Tale
  29. XIX: Hail, Coens!
  30. Filmography
  31. Bibliography
  32. Index
  33. InsertA
  34. InsertB