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Mark T. Conard, ed. (2009) The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers
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The Wandering Character in the Coen Brothers’ Films: When the Southern Gothic Meets the Western
“…The wandering character is a regular feature in the Coen Brothers’ films. Roaming the American South and West, two regions those directors have explored on various occasions, Coenian wanderers are mysterious, ominous characters, often grotesque, most of them undoubtedly having Gothic roots. …”
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“This is a […] Story;”” the Refusal of a Master Text in Noah Hawley’s Fargo
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La estructura videoclíptica y su inserción en el cine actual: el caso de
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Esthétique de la trace dans No Country for Old Men (Ethan et Joel Coen, 2007)
“…However, these traces are often illegible or refer to an undefined meaning. The Coen brothers’ film adapts this problematic, which in the novel focuses on the blurring of the interpretation of the clues through a specific iconic and sound transposition, notably through the use of close-ups and dolly shots that indicate a reading of the clues that is always doomed to failure. …”
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La série Fargo ou le ré-ensauvagement du monde. Une économie politique de la prédation
Published 2022-04-01“…This article examines the social intelligence of the first three seasons of the American television series Fargo, based on the Coen brothers' 1996 film and broadcast on the FX channel from 2014 to 2017. …”
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No Country for Old X-Men: The Aging Hero in No Country for Old Men and Logan
Published 2020-06-01“…A faithful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel, the Coen brothers’ eponymous film No Country for Old Men (2007), departs from the traditional Western by outlining an aging lawman, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, struggling to live up to his role. …”
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Du dépouillement surgit le silence : une adaptation sous couvert de minimalisme audiovisuel
“…Taking up the cause of Cormac McCarthy’s rigorously ascetic style in No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers’ adaptation offers several sequences where, due to the absence of words, the economy of extradiegetic music and the rarefaction of noises, the spectator finds himself confronted with a (relative) cinematographic silence in which the slightest sound, usually imperceptible, is likely to become intelligible. …”
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« Shots in mirrors » : Les jeux de miroir dans No Country For Old Men (Coen 2007)
“…Mirrors are overexploited motifs in film and literature, whose presence scarcely goes unnoticed, begging for a symbolic interpretation. The Coen brothers’ adaptation of No Country For Old Men pays tribute to the many mirrors featured in McCarthy’s novel. …”
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No Country for Old Men: a search for masculinity in later life
Published 2013-04-01“…Both Cormac Mcarthy’s novel and the Coen brothers’ film adaptation will be addressed. We argue that, as a man who becomes deprived of the traditional props of ageless male identity, Bell offers an unexpected and intriguing instance of the search for late-life masculine identity. …”
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Showrunner as Auteur: Bridging the Culture/ Economy Binary in Digital Hollywood
Published 2017-11-01“…The analysis compares earlier film directors-Jim Jarmusch and the Coen Brothers-with showrunners of the cable and digital era, including David Chase, the Wachowskis, David Benioff, and Diablo Cody. …”
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Ideology in Polish Translations of Anglo-American Literature
Published 2021-06-01“…Cormack McCarthy’s novels were translated into Polish on the wave of popularity of the Coen brothers movie based on No Country for Old Men. …”
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“The Dude Abides”: How "The Big Lebowski" Bowled Its Way from a Box Office Bomb to Nation-Wide Fests
Published 2012-12-01“…Since Blood Simple, the first film they wrote and directed together, the Coen Brothers have been working their way up in the film world and, in spite of their outside-the-mainstream taste for the noir and the surreal, have earned a number of prestigious prizes. …”
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Making progress with Wittgenstein and popular genre film
Published 2018“…Before returning to Graf in the last two chapters, the intermediary chapters outline the philosophical and conceptual scaffolding of the investigation: Chapter 2 sets the stage by outlining central concepts of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, which I employ in later chapter for a critical, challenging and pluralistic method of thinking about conventional film forms, genres, and techniques. With help by the Coen brothers and their film <em>A Serious Man</em> (USA 2010), chapter 3 acknowledges some ways in which Wittgenstein’s method be abused. …”
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Het interieur van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België door de Kortrijkse Kunstwerkstede De Coene. Markante getuige van een wijzigende visie rond representatie
Published 2012-12-01“…Whereas the architects gradually made less references to a classical form vocabulary, the biggest shift took place in the interior project, a design by the Kortrijkse Kunstwerkstede Gebroeders De Coene (the Courtrai Art Workshops De Coene Brothers). Rather than creating an overwhelming classical monumental interior space, De Coene designed a modern looking contemporary interior, in line with the progressive image that the Belgian government wished to identify itself with. …”
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