Coen (eBook)

Framing Religion in Amoral Order

Elijah Siegler (Herausgeber)

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2016
325 Seiten
Baylor University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4813-0284-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, True Grit--Joel and Ethan Coen make movies. They make movies that matter. But do these movies matter for religion?

Coen is a masterful response to this question of religious significance that neither imposes alien orthodoxy nor consigns the Coens to religious insignificance. The Coen movies discussed each receive a chapter-length investigation of the specific film's relation to the religious. Far more than just documenting religion in all Coen films--from blink-and you'll-miss-them biblical references to gospel tunes framing the soundtrack--the volume, cumulatively, mounts a compelling case for the Coens' consistent religious outlook with an original argument about precisely what constitutes religion. The volume reveals how Coen films emerge as morality tales, set in a mythological American landscape, that critique greed and self-interest. Coen heroes often confront apocalyptic and unredeemable evil, face human limitation and the banality of violence, and force audiences to wrestle with redemption and grace within the stark moral worlds portrayed on screen. This is religion on Coen terms.

Coen teaches its readers something new about religion, about film, and about the kind of world-making that each claims to be.

Autor

Elijah Siegler is Associate Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at The College of Charleston.

Inhalt

Introduction: Are the Coen Brothers Religious Filmmakers? Or How Simple Is Blood Simple?

Act One: The Early Films: Reading Religion as...
1. Morality in Raising Arizona
2. Theology in Miller’s Crossing
3. World Creation in Barton Fink
4. Community in The Hudsucker Proxy

First Intermission: So Are the Coen Brothers Religious Filmmakers? Fargo between Christian Moralism and Post-Modern Irony

Act Two: The Middle Films: Analyzing Religion and...
5. Fandom in The Big Lebowski
6. Race in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
7. Money in Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers
8. The State in Burn after Reading

Second Intermission: Are the Coen Brothers Formally Coherent? No Country for Old Men between Time and Eternity

Act Three: The Later Films: Theorizing...
9. Transcendence in The Man Who Wasn’t There
10. Hermeneutics in A Serious Man
11. Death in True Grit
12. Absence in Inside Llewyn Davis

Epilogue: Hail, Caesar?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2016
• Einführung: Elijah Siegler
• Nachwort: Elijah Siegler
• Zusatzinfo: 30 b&w photos
• Verlagsort: Waco
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Coen films, Coen movie, Big Lebowski, True Grit, faith and film, religion and film, Coen brothers
• ISBN-10: 1-4813-0284-1 / 1481302841
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4813-0284-5 / 9781481302845