The Coen Brothers' Fargo
by Edited by William G. LuhrFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-10-13
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Fargo is the most commercially and critically successful film of Ethan and Joel Coen. Immediately recognized as an important work, it was nominated for five Academy Awards and received two, an exceptional achievement for a low budget, independently produced film without major stars. Fargo is also a film that explores middle-American themes and settings from an original and unsettling perspective, challenging traditional genre structures. This volume explores Fargo from a variety of methodological perspectives. Providing a detailed account of the film's production, reception and place within the career of the Coen brothers, it explores issues and themes that are important to current film discourse, including genre, gender and sexuality, race, history, culture and myth.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | xi | ||
| Contributors | xiii | ||
| 1 Introduction | 1 | (9) | |
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| 2 Fargo in Context: The Middle of Nowhere? | 10 | (23) | |
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| 3 Motherhood, Homicide, and Swedish Meatballs: The Quiet Triumph of the Maternal in Fargo | 33 | (22) | |
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| 4 Fargo, or the Blank Frontier | 55 | (22) | |
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| 5 "Kinds Funny Lookin": Steve Buscemi's Disorderly Body | 77 | (15) | |
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| 6 Fargo: "Far Removed from the Stereotypes of... " | 92 | (17) | |
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| 7 Closer to the Life Than the Conventions of Cinema: Interview with the Coen Brothers (conducted in Cannes on May 16, 1996) | 109 | (10) | |
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| 8 Cold-Blooded Scheming: Roger Deakins and Fargo | 119 | (9) | |
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| 9 Carter Burwell in Conversation: Music for the Films of Joel and Ethan Coen | 128 | (9) | |
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| 10 Review of Fargo | 137 | (5) | |
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| 11 Prairie Home Death Trip | 142 | (9) | |
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| Filmography of Joel and Ethan Coen | 151 | (6) | |
| Selected Bibliography | 157 | (2) | |
| Index | 159 |
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