CONSTRUCTING THE COENS

From Blood Simple to Inside Llewyn Davis, Allen H. Redmon looks beyondthe postmodern sensibilities of every film written and directed by the Coens to find an unexpected range of recurring ideas expressed in and about contemporary film. In this volume, Redmon tackles all of the films in the Coen brothers canon by examining among other topics narrative coherence in The Man Who Wasn t There, intertextuality in No Country for Old Men, and sexuality in Burn after Reading and O Brother, Where Art Thou? Additional chapters look at their films through the prisms of gender studies, adaptation studies, and a constructivist sensibility weaved throughout their work. Considering the whole of the Coens output, as well as many of the topics being discussed in contemporary film studies, this book challenges viewers to reexamine their initial responses to these movies. By engaging both the familiar and foreign elements in each film, Constructing the Coens will appeal to fans of the brothers cinema, but also to students and scholars of film theory, adaptation studies, queer theory, and gender studies.