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No Country for Old Men
From Novel to Film
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2009
Summary
In 2005, Cormac McCarthy's novel, No Country for Old Men, was published to wide acclaim, and in 2007, Ethan and Joel Coen brought their adaptation of McCarthy's novel to the screen. The film earned praise from critics worldwide and was honored with four Academy Awards', including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. In No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film, scholars offer varied approaches to both the novel and the award-winning film. Beginning with several essays dedicated entirely to the novel and its place within the McCarthy canon, the anthology offers subsequent essays focusing on the film, the adaptation process, and the Coen Brothers more broadly. The book also features an interview with the Coen brothers' long-time cinematographer Roger Deakins. This entertaining and enriching book for readers interested in the Coen Brothers' films and in McCarthy's fiction is an important contribution to both literature and film studies.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-6729-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-6730-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
238
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Preface: Too Smart for Mainstream Media? No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: Dialogues and Intertextuality: No Country for Old Men as Fictional and Cinematic Text No access
Chapter 01. “You are the battleground”: Materiality, Moral Responsibility, and Determinism in No Country for Old Men No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 02. Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” and McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men: Art and Artifice in the Novel No access Pages 13 - 20
Chapter 03. For Whom Bell Tolls: Cormac McCarthy’s Sheriff Bell as Spiritual Hero No access Pages 21 - 31
Chapter 04. No Allegory for Casual Readers No access Pages 32 - 45
Chapter 05. Oedipus Rests: Mimesis and Allegory in No Country for Old Men No access Pages 46 - 59
Chapter 06. Genre, Voice, and Ethos: McCarthy’s Perverse “Thriller” No access Pages 60 - 72
Chapter 07. Borderline Evil: The Dark Side of Byzantium in No Country for Old Men, Novel and Film No access Pages 73 - 85
Chapter 08. “Of what is past, or passing, or to come”: Characters as Relics in No Country for Old Men No access Pages 86 - 94
Chapter 09. Devil with a Bad Haircut: Postmodern Villainy Rides the Range in No Country for Old Men No access Pages 95 - 109
Chapter 10. For Every Tatter in Its Mortal Dress: Costume and Character in No Country for Old Men No access Pages 110 - 123
Chapter 11. “Hold still”: Models of Masculinity in the Coens’ No Country for Old Men No access Pages 124 - 138
Chapter 12. A Flip of the Coin: Gender Systems and Female Resistance in the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men No access Pages 139 - 154
Chapter 13. Grace and Moss’s End in No Country for Old Men No access Pages 155 - 172
Chapter 14. Denial and Trepidation Awaiting What’s Coming in the Coen Brothers’ First Film Adaptation No access Pages 173 - 198
Chapter 15. Cold-Blooded Coen Brothers: The Death Drive and No Country for Old Men No access Pages 199 - 218
Chapter 16. “Just a cameraman”: An Interview with Roger Deakins No access Pages 219 - 226
Index No access Pages 227 - 234
About theEditors and Contributors No access Pages 235 - 238
