The Coen Brothers - Hardcover

Ronald Bergan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752818147 ISBN 13: 9780752818146

Publisher: Orion, 2000

Synopsis

The Coen Brothers

About this title

About the Author:

Ronald Bergan is one of the world's best-known writers on film. He contributes to The Guardian and The Independent and has written numerous TV documentaries which have been broadcast all over the world. His books have been widely praised on both sides of the Atlantic.

From Booklist:

The offbeat and idiosyncratic films of the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, two former film geeks from Minneapolis, Minnesota, have been hard to categorize. The eight films produced in the course of a career spanning nearly two decades incorporate the major genres of U.S. film (horror, comedy, mystery) but still are firmly anchored in the film noir tradition. For the first time, British film writer Bergan has compiled an in-depth account of the pair. Joel and Ethan are puckishly oblique with their interviewer, wryly eluding questions about the symbolism in their work and their creative process. Bergan does elicit much helpful information about their love for the pulp fiction of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and the film noir classics of the '40s and '50s. He explores their films in depth, retrieving choice anecdotes about the inception of each film and life on the set working with their talented repertory group of actors. Bergan maintains an irreverent, almost absurd tone throughout the book, in effect mimicking the unpredictable art of his subjects. Overall, a very thoughtful and clever book. Ted Leventhal
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About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0752818147
• ISBN 13: 9780752818146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248