A familiar scene of pistols: No Country for Old Men’s adaptation of Target Pistol and Man transmedia popular culture Coen Brothers art Alex Colville Curator's Note In this tense and ambiguous scene from the Coen Brothers’ award-winning No Country for ...
I hadn't considered Marge/Jean as lethal women before so bringing that figure in is a really unique angle to both the theory of femmes fatales and interpretations of Fargo. I agree with you here as well, thanks for parsing out some of the differences ...
I'm on side with you, Jacqueline, that the Coens seem to focus on violent masculinity in many of their films. No Country for Old Men is a prime example, and I would suggest, is also related to the Western genre they're drawing on there, which is ...
The femme fatale is such a debatable figure from noir and popular culture more broadly that she really seems an appropriate type of character to employ in such pastiche-driven neo-noir narratives. Your post really speaks to how we can recognize the famili ...
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Jean's actualization is paternal?
No Country for Old Men
Troubling the male gaze?