Apropos of Nothing: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Coen Brothers

by Clark Buckner

Book Overview

The Coen Brothers' films are rife with figures of absence. In The Big Lebowski, the Dude does nothing. He is put on the trail of a kidnapping that never happened, and solves the crime when he realizes that he paid the ransom with "a ringer for a ringer." The Hudsucker Proxy features a dupe who draws zeros throughout the film, enthusiastically proclaiming, "You know, for the kids " Barton Fink is a film that revolves around the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438452551
• ISBN13: 9781438452555
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"