This examination of the distinctive cinema of Joel and Ethan Coen explores the theme of violence in their wide-ranging body of work.
Ryan P. Doom is a freelance writer and teacher.
This study of the cinema of Joel and Ethan Coen examines the theme
of violence that runs through the brothers' work via chapters that
scrutinize the motives, thoughts, and actions of the principal
characters in each of the Coens' films. In the world depicted in
the films, suggests the author, violence always has devastating,
unintended consequences on the characters, both for those who live
by violence and those who are just bystanders to the violent acts
of others. Covering all of the Coens' films except the most recent
(2009's A Serious Man), this engagingly written book will interest
both film scholars and cinema fans.
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