ENGL 341: Coen Brothers - Melissa Remark

All Sources about the Coen Brothers' Films

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Assouly, Julie. "The Wandering Character in the Coen Brothers' Films: When the Southern Gothic Meets the

Western." La Revue LISA ejournal, 2018, Volume 16.

 

B., Benjamin. "Folk Implosion." American Cinematographer, Jan 2014.

 

Campbell, Neil, Susan Kollin, et. al. "From Blood Simple to True Grit: A Conversation about the Coen

Brothers' Cinematic West." Western American Literature, Fall 2013, 48(3). 
 

Chang, Justin. "Life's Cruelty is a Constant in The Coen Brothers' Mixed Bag Western 'Ballad.'" Fresh

Air (NPR), Nov 2018.

 

Cornish, Audie. "'True Grit,' Then and Now." All Things Considered (NPR), Dec 2010.

 

Dallas-Comentale, Edward P. and Aaron Jaffe. This Year's Work in Lebowski Studies. Bloomington: Indiana

University Press, 2009. Ebook.

Includes the following articles:

• The Really Big Sleep: Jeffrey Lebowski as the Second Coming of Rip Van Winkle 

• A Once and Future Dude: The Big Lebowski as Medieval Grail-Quest

• Dudespeak: Or, How to Bowl like a Pornstar

• Metonymic Hats and Metaphoric Tumbleweeds: Noir Literary Aesthetics in Miller’s Crossing and The Big Lebowski

• The Dude and the New Left

• The Big Lebowski and Paul de Man: Historicizing Irony and Ironizing Historicism

• Lebowski and the Ends of Postmodern American Comedy

• Found Document: The Stranger’s Commentary and a Note on His Method

• No Literal Connection: Mass Commodification, U.S. Militarism, and the Oil Industry in The Big Lebowski

• “I’ll Keep Rolling Along”: Some Notes on Singing Cowboys and Bowling Alleys in The Big Lebowski

• What Condition the Postmodern Condition Is In: Collecting Culture in The Big Lebowski

• Holding Out Hope for the Creedence: Music and the Search for the Real Thing in The Big Lebowski

• “Fuck It, Let’s Go Bowling”: The Cultural Connotations of Bowling in The Big Lebowski

• LebowskIcons: The Rug, The Iron Lung, The Tiki Bar, and Busby Berkeley

• On the White Russian

• Professor Dude: An Inquiry into the Appeal of His Dudeness for Contemporary College Students

• Abiding (as) Animal: Marmot, Pomeranian, Whale, Dude

• Logjammin’ and Gutterballs: Masculinities in The Big Lebowski

• Size Matters

• Brunswick = Fluxus

• Enduring and Abiding

 

Dill, Emily and Karen Janke. "'New Shit Has Come to Light': Information Seeking Behavior in The Big

Lebowski." The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 46, no. 4, Aug. 2013.

 

Edelstein, David. “Man of Constant Sorrow.” New York, vol. 46, no. 39, Dec. 2013.

 

Edelstein, David and Terry Gross. "Coen Brothers Spoof Old Hollywood, With Mixed Results, In Hail,

Caesar!" Fresh Air (NPR), Feb 2016.

 

Gleiberman, Owen. "Inside Llewyn Davis." Entertainment Weekly, 12/13/2013, Issue 1289.

 

Greene, Andy. "The Decade of The Dude." Rolling Stone, Sept 2008, Issue 1060.

 

Gonyea, Don. "20 Years On, 'The Big Lebowski' Reminds Us To Slow Down, Dude." Weekend Edition

Saturday (NPR), March 2018.  

Grant, Kristen. "The Coen Brothers' Fargo." Velvet Light Trap, 2006.
 

Ingle, Zachary. Fan Phenomena: The Big Lebowski. Chicago, Intellect Books, 2014.

Includes the following articles:

• The Comforts and Pleasures of Repetitive Dialogue in The Big Lebowski

• Another Caucasian: Online Fan Response to Donny and the Stranger

•  Fan Appreciation no.1 Interview with Will Russell: Co-founder of Lebowski Fest

•  ‘If You Will It, It Is No Dream’: Lebowski Fest and Cult Fandom

•  That Shirt Really Ties the Room Together: The Lebowski Legacy of Cultural Artefacts

•  Nihilistic Dudes: The Masculine Cult Figure in Fin de Siècle American Cinema

•  Fan Appreciation no.2 Interview with Adam Bertocci: Author of Two Gentlemen of Lebowski

•  The Bard, The Knave and Sir Walter: Adapting a Modern Cult Movie into a Neo-Shakespearean Stage Play

•  Reimagining and Commodifying Gender, Genre and Sexuality in The Big Lebowski for Cult Fan Consumption

•  The Dude Goes Digital: The Big Lebowski, New Media and Participatory Culture

•  Fan Appreciation no.3 Interview with Kim Barber: Executive Producer of The Achievers (2009)

•  Listening Deeply to Lebowski: One Fan’s Attempt to Draw a Musical Map Surrounding the Dude

•  Abiding Sublimely: From Eastern Philosophies to The Big Lebowski

 

Kazecki, Jason. "'What makes a man, Mr. Lebowski?': masculinity under (friendly) fire in Ethan and Joel

Coen's The Big Lebowski." Atenea, June 2008, Vol 28, Issue 1.

 

King, Lynnea Chapman, ed. No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press,

2009. Ebook.

Includes the following articles and content:

• Contents

•  Preface: Too Smart for Mainstream Media?

•  Acknowledgments

•  Introduction: Dialogues and Intertextuality: No Country for Old Men as Fictional and Cinematic Text

•  Chapter 01. “You are the battleground”: Materiality, Moral Responsibility, and Determinism in No Country for Old Men

•  Chapter 02. Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” and McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men: Art and Artifice in the Novel

•  Chapter 03. For Whom Bell Tolls: Cormac McCarthy’s Sheriff Bell as Spiritual Hero

•  Chapter 04. No Allegory for Casual Readers

•  Chapter 05. Oedipus Rests: Mimesis and Allegory in No Country for Old Men

•  Chapter 06. Genre, Voice, and Ethos: McCarthy’s Perverse “Thriller”

•  Chapter 07. Borderline Evil: The Dark Side of Byzantium in No Country for Old Men, Novel and Film

•  Chapter 08. “Of what is past, or passing, or to come”: Characters as Relics in No Country for Old Men

•  Chapter 09. Devil with a Bad Haircut: Postmodern Villainy Rides the Range in No Country for Old Men

•  Chapter 10. For Every Tatter in Its Mortal Dress: Costume and Character in No Country for Old Men

•  Chapter 11. “Hold still”: Models of Masculinity in the Coens’ No Country for Old Men

•  Chapter 12. A Flip of the Coin: Gender Systems and Female Resistance in the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men

•  Chapter 13. Grace and Moss’s End in No Country for Old Men

•  Chapter 14. Denial and Trepidation Awaiting What’s Coming in the Coen Brothers’ First Film Adaptation

•  Chapter 15. Cold-Blooded Coen Brothers: The Death Drive and No Country for Old Men

•  Chapter 16. “Just a cameraman”: An Interview with Roger Deakins

•  Index

•  About theEditors and Contributors

 

Leckrone, J. Wesley. "Hippies, Feminists, and Neocons: Using "The Big Lebowski" to Find the Political in the

Nonpolitical." PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol 46, Issue 1, 2013.

 

McCarthy, Todd. "True Grit: Coen brothers remake of the girl-power Western has great performances, no

humor." Hollywood Reporter, Vol. 416, Issue 57.

 

Melton, Jeffrey. "Romancing the American Dream: The Coen Brothers' Raising Arizona." Studies in American

Humor, Vol 3, Issue 1, 2017.

Nayman, Adam. "The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together." Cineaste, Spring 2019.

 

Redmon, Allen H. "How Many Lebowskis Are There? Genre, Spectatorial Authorship, and The Big

Lebowski." Journal of Popular Film and Television, January 1, 2012, Vol. 40, Issue 2.

 

Scott, Carl Eric. "Reflections on Faith and Film in Hail, Caesar!" Perspectives on Political Science, Jul-

Sep2016, Vol. 45, Issue 3.

 

Seigal, Robert. "In 'Hail, Caesar!' Josh Brolin Explores The Debauchery Of Old Hollywood." All Things

Considered (NPR), 01/29/2016.

Snee, Brian J. and Richardson, Jennifer J. "Cine-Mimetic Syntax: The Big Lebowski and the Hollywood Neo-

Classical Style." Atlantic Journal of Communication, Jan2013, Vol. 21, Issue 1.

 

Sticchi, Francesco. "Inside the “Mind” of Llewyn Davis: Embodying a Melancholic Vision of the

World." Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2017.

 

Tangney, ShaunAnne. "The dream abides: The Big Lebowski, film noir, and the American dream." Rocky

Mountain Review, Vol 66, no.2, Sept. 2021. 

Toscano, Margaret M. "Homer Meets the Coen Brothers: Memory as Artistic Pastiche in O Brother, Where Art

Thou?" Film & History, Fall 2009, Vol. 39, Issue 2.

 

Walker, Joseph S and Perry, Keith. "Introduction: 'If you think we're alive, you ought to speak.'" (Introduction

to the issue). Post Script, 2008.

This issue of Post Script includes the following articles:

• Arnold, David L.G. "On ladies, killing, and the ethics of the remake: The Coen Brothers do The Ladykillers."

• Hainge, Greg. "The unbearable blandness of being: the everyday and Muzak in Barton Fink and Fargo."

• Lavery, David. "'Secret shit': the uncertainty principle, lying, deviations, and the movie creativity of the Coen Brothers." 

• Moss, Andrew. "Schizophrenia and Postmodernism: Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, and 'The Coen

Brothers.'"

• Orr, Stanley. "Razing Cain: excess signification in Blood Simple and The Man who Wasn't There."

• Robson, Eddie. "From The Hudsucker Proxy to Fargo: 'a different concept, a different kind of film.'"

• Seeley, Tracy. "O Brother, What Art Thou?: postmodern pranksterism, or parody with a purpose?"

• Singer, Marc. "'Trapped by their pasts': noir and nostalgia in The Big Lebowski."

• Spiro, John Paul. "'You're Very Beautiful...Are You in Pictures?': Barton Fink, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and the Purposes of Art."

• Tiffany, Joseph. "'A real imaginary place': reality and fantasy from Blood Simple to The Man Who Wasn't

There."

 

Watt, Mary. “O Brother Where Art Thou?” Inferno 26 According to the Brothers Coen." Dante e l'Arte, Vol 2,

2016.

Wilson, Jake. "A Universal Picture: The Gods of Hail, Caesar!" Screen Education, Vol 93, Jan 2019.

 

Zacharek, Stephanie. "Hail, Caesar! Is a Chopped Salad of Zany Mermaids, Sailors and Centurions." TIME

Magazine, 2/15/2016, Vol. 187, Issue 5.