{"product_id":"joel-and-ethan-coen-contemporary-film-directors-0252071859","title":"Joel and Ethan Coen (Contemporary Film Directors)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0252071859\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Palmer, R. Barton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith landmark films such as Fargo, O Brother Where art Thou?, Blood Simple, and Raising Arizona, the Coen brothers have achieved both critical and commercial success. Proving the existence of a viable market for \"small\" films that are also intellectually rewarding, their work has exploded generic conventions amid rich webs of transtextual references.R. Barton Palmer argues that the Coen oeuvre forms a central element in what might be called postmodernist filmmaking. Mixing high and low cultural sources and blurring genres like noir and comedy, the use of pastiche and anti-realist elements in films such as The Hudsucker Proxy and Barton Fink clearly fit the postmodernist paradigm. Palmer argues that for a full understanding of the Coen brothers' unique position within film culture, it is important to see how they have developed a new type of text within general postmodernist practice that Palmer terms commercial\/independent. Analyzing their substantial body of work from this \"generic\" framework is the central focus of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51886814265632,"sku":"NEW0252071859","price":26.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/51N_movM7XL.jpg?v=1781899411","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/joel-and-ethan-coen-contemporary-film-directors-0252071859","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}