The Coen Brothers' America / by Booker, M. Keith

Table of Contents: “…: anarchic comedy in Raising Arizona, The ladykillers, and Burn after reading -- Joel and Ethan do Hammett and Chandler: Miller's crossing, The big Lebowski, and the hard-boiled tradition -- How the sausage gets made: inside the Hollywood film industry in Barton Fink and Hail, Caesar! -- Star-crossed lovers: The Hudsucker proxy, Intolerable cruelty, and the American tradition of screwball comedy -- Laughing to keep from dying in the suburbs: black comedy in Fargo and A serious man -- From soggy bottom to Greenwich Village: American music in O brother, where art thou? …”