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Coen - Framing Religion in Amoral Order (Paperback)
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Coen - Framing Religion in Amoral Order (Paperback)
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Raising Arizona , Fargo , The Big Lebowski , No Country for Old Men
, True Grit aJoel and Ethan Coen make movies. They make movies that
matter. But do these movies matter for religion? Coen is a
masterful response to this question of religious significance that
neither imposes alien orthodoxy nor consigns the Coens to religious
insignificance. The Coen movies discussed each receive a
chapter-length investigation of the specific film's relation to the
religious. Far more than just documenting religion in all Coen
filmsafrom blink-and you'll-miss-them biblical references to gospel
tunes framing the soundtrackathe volume, cumulatively, mounts a
compelling case for the Coens' consistent religious outlook with an
original argument about precisely what constitutes religion. The
volume reveals how Coen films emerge as morality tales, set in a
mythological American landscape, that critique greed and
self-interest. Coen heroes often confront apocalyptic and
unredeemable evil, face human limitation and the banality of
violence, and force audiences to wrestle with redemption and grace
within the stark moral worlds portrayed on screen. This is religion
on Coen terms. Coen teaches its readers something new about
religion, about film, and about the kind of world-making that each
claims to be.
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