The Coen Brothers and the Comedy of Democracy
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Politics, Literature, & Film
ISBN-10
1498555187
ISBN-13
9781498555180
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Lexington Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 12th, 2021
Print length
132 Pages
Weight
210 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.20 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Film: styles & genresPolitical science & theory
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This book provides an analysis of five of the best known comedies of the award winning American film makers Joel and Ethan Coen. It demonstrates that their films, while popular and entertaining, also contain substantial philosophic and political ideas, particularly focusing on the nature of liberal democracy.
Both critically and commercially successful filmmakers, the Coen brothers have written, produced, and directed numerous acclaimed films over the past three decades. Sara MacDonald and Barry Craig demonstrate that their comedies, in particular, which are often dismissed as mere entertainments, actually present substantial philosophic and political arguments. They examine five of the Coen brothers’ comedies: Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou, and Hail Caesar!. In those works, they discover insightful engagements with such ideas as questions of human freedom, the relationship of reason to religion, and the nature of liberal democracy in the American regime. They demonstrate how sometimes explicitly, but generally implicitly, the Coens draw on thinkers such as Homer, Plato, Dante, and Hegel, while simultaneously presenting popular entertainment.
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