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Both critically and commercially successful filmmakers, the Coen brothers have written, produced, and directed numerous acclaimed films over the past three decades. Sara MacDonald and Barry Craig demonstrate that their comedies, in particular, which are often dismissed as mere entertainments, actually present substantial philosophic and political arguments. They examine five of the Coen brothers' comedies: Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou, and Hail Caesar!. In those works, they discover insightful engagements with such ideas as questions of human freedom, the relationship of reason to religion, and the nature of liberal democracy in the American regime. They demonstrate how sometimes explicitly, but generally implicitly, the Coens draw on thinkers such as Homer, Plato, Dante, and Hegel, while simultaneously presenting popular entertainment.
Contents
Ch. 1 Raising Arizona: It Takes a Baby to Raise a Nation
Ch. 2 Fargo: Why You Shouldn't Put Your Friend in a Wood Chipper
Ch. 3 The Big Lebowski: Bowling for Love
Ch. 4 O Brother, Where Art Thou?: That Time Odysseus Woke Up in a Democracy
Ch. 5 Hail, Caesar!: The Divine Presence that Was Not Represented in the Film
