The Coen Brothers' America

Informationen zum Autor M. Keith Booker is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He is the author or editor of more than fifty books on literature, culture, and film. Klappentext From Blood Simple and Raising Arizona to Inside Llewyn Davis and Hail, Caesar!, the films of Joel and Ethan Coen represent a sort of alternate reality of America. The author explores how the settings-geographical, cultural, and historical-of their films provide viewers with slightly skewed, though no less true, perspectives of life American life. Zusammenfassung From Blood Simple and Raising Arizona to Inside Llewyn Davis and Hail, Caesar!, the films of Joel and Ethan Coen represent a sort of alternate reality of America. The author explores how the settings—geographical, cultural, and historical—of their films provide viewers with slightly skewed, though no less true, perspectives of life American life.

Product details

• Authors: Keith M Booker, M. Keith Booker, Booker M. Keith
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781538120866
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-2086-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 237 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; USA, TV, Künstler - Künstlerin, Fernsehen - Privatfernsehen, Film / Regisseure, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts), United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Film Theory & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, Film history, theory or criticism