Homer in Tishomingo: Eclecticism and cultural transformation in the Coen Brothers' O Brother Where Art Thou?

Autor:	John Cant
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Literature Hollywood Sociology and Political Science business.industry General Arts and Humanities media_common.quotation_subject Brother Movie theater Aesthetics Affection Thou Criticism Sociology business Eclecticism Seriousness media_common
Zdroj:	Comparative American Studies An International Journal. 5:63-79
ISSN:	1741-2676 1477-5700
DOI:	10.1179/147757007x204114
Popis:	The Coen Brothers have established themselves as independent (whatever that term may have come to mean) cineastes in a market that has not been notably conducive to that form of cultural enterprise. Their work is clearly based on a revisiting of Hollywood movies of the past that is informed by both affection and esteem. The Coens' detractors suggest that their films display a lack of affect towards their characters, an overstatement revealing a failure to grasp that the Coens' work is not primarily concerned with 'character'. This article seeks to explore the Coens' eclecticism and to explain how their treatment of a very wide range of cultural sources avoids the diminishment inherent in pastiche by means of an underlying seriousness that preserves respect for these sources. In so doing they foreground the processes by which geographical regions become cultural spaces and, at crucial moments of change, cultural forms undergo mediatic transmutation.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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