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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 December 2009
      13 October 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511615290
      9780521808859
      9780521005012
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511615290
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.37kg, 180 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.25kg, 180 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication
      Series:
      Cambridge Film Handbooks
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    Subjects:
    Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication
    Series:
    Cambridge Film Handbooks
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    Book description

    Fargo is the most commercially and critically successful film of Ethan and Joel Coen. Immediately recognized as an important work, it was nominated for five Academy Awards and received two, an exceptional achievement for a low budget, independently produced film without major stars. Fargo is also a film that explores middle-American themes and settings from an original and unsettling perspective, challenging traditional genre structures. This volume explores Fargo from a variety of methodological perspectives. Providing a detailed account of the film's production, reception and place within the career of the Coen brothers, it explores issues and themes that are important to current film discourse, including genre, gender and sexuality, race, history, culture and myth.

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    "...a useful introduction to the critical discourse penned in the years since the film's premier." Jarrod Waetjen, Gibbs College, American Book Review

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    Contents

    Contents
    References
    Selected Bibliography
    BOOKS ABOUT THE COENS
    Ashbrook, John and Ellen Cheshire, Brothers Coen: Joel and Ethan Coen (Pocket Essentials 2000)
    Bergen, Ronald, The Coen Brothers (Thunder's Mouth 2000)
    Körte, Peter and Georg Seesslen, Eds., Joel and Ethan Coen (Limelight 2001)
    Levine, Josh, The Coen Brothers: The Story of Two American Filmmakers (ECW Press 2000)
    Mottram, James, Coen Brothers: The Life of the Mind (Brassey's 2000)
    Robertson, William P., Tricia Cooke, and John T. Anderson, The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers' Film (Norton 1998)
    Woods, Paul, Ed., Blood Siblings: The Cinema of Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (Plexus 2000)
    BOOKS WITH CHAPTERS DEALING WITH FARGO
    “Carter Burwell in Conversation: Music for the Films of Joel and Ethan Coen,” in Cinesonic: The World of Sound on Film, edited by Philip Brophy (Sidney: Australian Film, Television and Radio School, 1999), 15–39
    Radner, Hilary, “New Hollywood's New Women: Murder in Mind – Sarah and Margie,” in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, edited by Steve Neale and Murray Smith (New York: Routledge, 1998), 247–62
    SELECTED ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS, AND REVIEWS
    Ciment, Michel and Hubert Niogret, “Closer to Life than the Conventions of Cinema,” Positif, Sept. 1996, 12–17
    Doherty, Thomas, “Fargo,” Cineaste, Vol. 22, No.2, 1996, 47, 55
    Franke, Lizzie, “Hell Freezes Over: Images from the Coen Brothers' film Fargo,” Sight and Sound, No. 6, May 1996, 24–7
    Krohn, Bill, “Fargo, Situation des Frères Coen,” Cahiers du Cinema, No. 502, Sept. 1996, 32–5
    Lowe, Andy, “The Brothers Grim,” Total Film, Issue 16, May 1998, 52–8
    McDonald, William, “Brothers in a Movie World of their Own,” The New York Times, Arts and Leisure Section, March 3, 1996, 1, 24–5
    McKinney, Devin, “Fargo,” Film Quarterly, Vol.47, May–June 1996, 31–4
    Probst, Christopher, “‘Cold Blooded Scheming:’ The Filming of Fargo,” American Cinematographer, Vol.77, March 1996, 28–30
    Saada, Nicholas, “Entretien avec Ethan et Joel Coen,” Cahiers du Cinema, No. 505, Sept. 1996, 43–7
    Sherman, Paul, “The Offbeat World of the Coen Brothers,” The Boston Herald, March 4, 1996
    Smith, Sean K., “Coens of Silence,” L.A. View, March 15–21, 1996, 11–13
    Tunison, Michael, “Independence Streak: The Coens' Decidedly Uncommercial Cinema of Quirk,” Entertainment Today, 1996, 4

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