Coen

Framing Religion in Amoral Order

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-02-29
Mått:152 x 226 x 17 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:325
Förlag:Baylor University Press
ISBN:9781481302838

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

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

Recensioner i media

Taken as a whole, the essays in Coen offer a lively conversation (indeed, the contributors edited one another's essays, and several of the published texts contain helpful intertextual comments) about the ways in which filmmakers, audiences, and scholars all imagine interactions between film and religion. As a compilation of criticism on the Coen filmography, the collection organizes and reframes an expansive bibliography. As works of scholarship on religion, its essays imaginatively connect critical theory of religion with cinema studies scholarship, applied in clever and illuminating readings of the Coens' oeuvre. -- Geoffrey Pollick -- The Revealer

Innehållsförteckning

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 Arizona2. Theology in Miller's Crossing3. World Creation in Barton Fink4. Community in The Hudsucker ProxyFirst Intermission: So Are the Coen Brothers Religious Filmmakers? Fargo between Christian Moralism and Post-Modern IronyAct Two: The Middle Films: Analyzing Religion and...5. Fandom in The Big Lebowski6. Race in O Brother, Where Art Thou?7. Money in Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers8. The State in Burn after ReadingSecond Intermission: Are the Coen Brothers Formally Coherent? No Country for Old Men between Time and EternityAct Three: The Later Films: Theorizing...9. Transcendence in The Man Who Wasn't There10. Hermeneutics in A Serious Man11. Death in True Grit12. Absence in Inside Llewyn DavisEpilogue: Hail, Caesar?