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03056aam a2200349 a 4500 001 84ECC140E05511E1B4DE4CCF6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120807010223 008 120416s2012 kyu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2012013546 020 $a 0813134455 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780813134451 (pbk. : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)786002569 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN1998.3.C6635 $b P45 2012 082 00 $a 791.4302/330922 $2 23 245 0 $a The philosophy of the Coen Brothers / $c edited by Mark T. Conard. 250 $a Updated ed. 260 $a Lexington, Ky. : $b University Press of Kentucky, $c c2012. 300 $a vii, 344 p. ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a The philosophy of popular culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction / Mark T. Conard -- The Coen Brand of Comedy and Tragedy. Raising Arizona as an American Comedy / Richard Gilmore -- The Human Comedy Perpetuates Itself: Nihilism and Comedy in Coen Neo-Noir / Thomas S. Hibbs -- Philosophies of Comedy in O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Douglas McFarland -- No Country for Old Men: the Coens' Tragic Western / Richard Gilmore -- Deceit, Desire, and Dark Comedy: Postmodern Dead Ends in Blood Simple / Alan Woolfolk -- Ethics: Shame, Justice, and Virtue. "And It's Such a Beautiful Day!": Shame and Fargo / Rebecca Hanrahan and David Stearns -- Justice, Power, and Love: The Political Philosophy of Intolerable Cruelty / Shai Biderman and William J. Devlin -- Ethics, Heart, and Violence in Miller's Crossing / Bradley L. Herling -- "Takin' 'er Easy for All Us Sinners": Laziness as a Virtue in The Big Lebowski / Matthew K. Douglass and Jerry L. Walls -- No country for old men as moral philosophy / Douglas McFarland -- Postmodernity, Interpretation, and the Construction of History. Heidegger and the Problem of Interpretation in Barton Fink / Mark T. Conard -- The Past Is Now: History and The Hudsucker Proxy / Paul Coughlin -- "A Homespun Murder Story": Film Noir and the Problem of Modernity in Fargo / Jerold J. Abrams -- Existentialism, Alienation, and Despair. "What Kind of Man Are You?" The Coen Brothers and Existentialist Role Playing / Richard Gaughran -- Being the Barber: Kierkegaardian Despair in The Man Who Wasn't There / Karen D. Hoffman -- Thinking beyond the Failed Community: Blood Simple and The Man Who Wasn't There / R. Barton Palmer -- God, Man, and Nature -- How Job begat Larry: the Present Situation in A Serious Man / K. L. Evans -- "A Lead Ball of Justice": The Logic of Retribution and the Ethics of Instruction in True Grit / David LaRocca. 600 10 $a Coen, Joel $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Coen, Ethan $x Criticism and interpretation. 700 1 $a Conard, Mark T., $d 1965- 830 0 $a Philosophy of popular culture. 941 $a 2 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417012946.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171229053434.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=84ECC140E05511E1B4DE4CCF6AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search