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Popular Music in the Films of Joel and Ethan Coen.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Popular Music in the Films of Joel and Ethan Coen./
Author:	Ulmer, Jesse.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	281 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-09A(E).
Subject:	Film studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10269483
ISBN:	9781369727609

Popular Music in the Films of Joel and Ethan Coen.
Ulmer, Jesse.

Popular Music in the Films of Joel and Ethan Coen. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 281 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2017.

This dissertation examines the use of popular music in the films of Joel and Ethan Coen, more popularly known as the "Coen brothers." To date, the films of the Coens have been analyzed from a wide variety of scholarly approaches, including postmodernism, independent film, genre theory, and cultural studies. However, an extended, in-depth study of popular music in Coen films---a standout yet consistently overlooked feature of their auterism---has yet to conducted, an important gap addressed by this dissertation. I argue that the use of popular music deserves to be, along with other aspects like dynamic camerawork, ornate dialogue, and genre play, considered a definitive feature of Coen brothers films. The particular way in the Coens handle the music of their films goes well beyond the Hollywood norm, becoming something of a "bespoke" or "curatorial" kind of approach to film music. The depth and breadth of this approach situates the Coens as "auteur melomanes," Claudia Gorbman's term for music loving American film directors that include Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Woody Allen, and Spike Lee.

ISBN: 9781369727609Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122736
Film studies.

Popular Music in the Films of Joel and Ethan Coen.
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