ENGL 341: Coen Brothers - Melissa Remark

Sources about The Big Lebowski 

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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.

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.

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.  

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.

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

Brothers." Post Script, 2008.

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.

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.

Singer, Marc. "'Trapped by their pasts': noir and nostalgia in The Big Lebowski." Post Script, 2008.

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.

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

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

 

The following are ebooks with articles and chapters about the movie:

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

 

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

 

The Library doesn't have access to the following sources, but you may be able to get them via interlibrary loan. Contact a librarian for help with interlibrary loan if you need it:

Craig, Timothy E. "Watching the Dude Abide: 'The Big Lebowski,' Lebowski Fest and a Case Study of the

Creation of the 'First Cult Film of the Internet Age,' 1998-2009." Dissertation. 2014.

 

De Villiers, Dawid W. "The Big Lebowski, or, Abiding with Sisyphus." English Studies in Africa: A Journal of

the Humanities." 2018, Vol 16, Issue 1.

 

Eidsvåg, Marta. "'Shut the fuck up, Donny!'-om The Big Lebowski." Z: Filmtidsskrift, 2019. 

 

Vlad, Florian Andrei. "Buddhism in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Dudeism in The Big Lebowski."

In Ideology, Identify, and the US: Crossroads, Freeways, Collisions. Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2019.