The cinema of the Coen brothers : hard boiled entertainments / Jeffrey Adams. by Adams, Jeffrey Todd

Table of Contents: “…Blood Simple: 'It's the Same Old Song' -- Raising Arizona: A State of Mind -- Miller's Crossing: 'A Handsome Movie about Men in Hats' -- Barton Fink: 'For the Common Man' -- The Hudsucker Proxy: A Comedy of Reinvention -- Fargo: In the Land of Tall Tales -- The Big Lebowski: 'The Dude Abides' -- O Brother Where Art Thou?…”
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How to View and Appreciate Great Movies.

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The Brothers Coen : unique characters of violence / Ryan P. Doom. by Doom, Ryan P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: violently original -- Murder most simple: Blood simple (1985) -- Babies, bikers, and buffoons: Raising Arizona (1987) -- The professional kill: Miller's crossing (1990) -- Life of the imaginary mind: Barton Fink (1991) -- Reinventing the circle of suicide: The Hudsucker proxy (1994) -- What's the deal with greed and wood chippers?…”
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The blank swan : the end of probability / Elie Ayache. by Ayache, Elie

Table of Contents: “…PART I, WRITING AND EVENT. 1, Writer of The BLANK Swan -- 2, The Writing of Derivatives -- 3, The Event of the Market -- 4, Writing and the Market -- PART II, ABSOLUTE CONTINGENCY AND THE RETURN OF SPECULATION. 5, The Necessity of Contingency -- 6, Passage to the Future -- 7, Necessity of the Future -- 8, Necessity of Writing -- PART III, FLIGHT TO SYDNEY, OR THE GENESIS OF THE BOOK. 9, The Mathematics of Price -- 10, Barton Fink -- 11, The Narrative Adventure -- 12, Out of the Box – 13, The Prestige – 14, The Geographical Process -- PART IV, CONVERSION OF CREDIT INTO EQUITY, OR THE GENESIS OF THE MARKET. 15, History of the Market -- 16, From Debt to Equity -- 17, The Market and the Philosophy of Difference –--18, Future of the Market -- 19, Appendix 1, The Logic and Mathematics of Regime Switching -- 20, Appendix 2, From ‘Being and Time’ to ‘Being and Place’ with Jeff Malpas.…”
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Constructing the Coens : from Blood simple to Inside Llewyn Davis / Allen H. Redmon. by Redmon, Allen H., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"It's a problem of 'perception'": identifying the Coens' constructivist sensibility -- "You don't want to be tried and found wantin'": triggering the ongoing adaptation of the the Ladykillers -- "I will destroy him": negotiating the image in Barton Fink and Raising Arizona -- That gag's got whiskers on it: achieving narrative coherence in the Hudsucker proxy and The man who wasn't there -- "The coin don't have no say": examining intertextuality in the Hudsucker proxy, Intolerable cruelty, and No country for old men -- "A lotta ins, a lotta outs": interweaving genres in the Big Lebowski and O brother, where art thou? …”
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Rehearsal for a Sicilian tragedy.

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Episode 11, 1990s / 3DD Entertainment.

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