The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers by Joseph McBride (Softcover)
Published by Anthem, 2022
Softcover
163 pages
9x6 inches
Near Fine condition.
"Joseph McBride, long one of our most respected film historians, adds to his estimable appraisals of the likes of Ford, Capra, Hawks, Welles, Lubitsch, and Spielberg with an incisive analysis (and often impassioned defense) of the often misunderstood works of the iconoclastic Coen Bros. ― whom he sees as the heirs apparent to such icons as Preston Sturges, James M. Cain, and Jonathan Swift. Approaching their unique oeuvre with a warmth and understanding which extends even to the films he views as problematic, he concludes with a dead-on celebration of their masterpiece (in my view), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”― Joe Dante, director of Gremlins, Matinee, and Small Soldiers
Published by Anthem, 2022
Softcover
163 pages
9x6 inches
Near Fine condition.
"Joseph McBride, long one of our most respected film historians, adds to his estimable appraisals of the likes of Ford, Capra, Hawks, Welles, Lubitsch, and Spielberg with an incisive analysis (and often impassioned defense) of the often misunderstood works of the iconoclastic Coen Bros. ― whom he sees as the heirs apparent to such icons as Preston Sturges, James M. Cain, and Jonathan Swift. Approaching their unique oeuvre with a warmth and understanding which extends even to the films he views as problematic, he concludes with a dead-on celebration of their masterpiece (in my view), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”― Joe Dante, director of Gremlins, Matinee, and Small Soldiers
Published by Anthem, 2022
Softcover
163 pages
9x6 inches
Near Fine condition.
"Joseph McBride, long one of our most respected film historians, adds to his estimable appraisals of the likes of Ford, Capra, Hawks, Welles, Lubitsch, and Spielberg with an incisive analysis (and often impassioned defense) of the often misunderstood works of the iconoclastic Coen Bros. ― whom he sees as the heirs apparent to such icons as Preston Sturges, James M. Cain, and Jonathan Swift. Approaching their unique oeuvre with a warmth and understanding which extends even to the films he views as problematic, he concludes with a dead-on celebration of their masterpiece (in my view), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”― Joe Dante, director of Gremlins, Matinee, and Small Soldiers
