Constructing the Coens : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : 9781442244849 : 1442244844 : 02 Feb 2015 : The films of Ethan and Joel Coen have been embraced by mainstream audiences, but also have been subject to intense scrutiny by critics and cinema scholars. Movies such asBarton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, andRaising Arizona represent the filmmakers' postmodern tendencies, a subject many academics have written about at length. But is it enough to reduce their features as expressions of postmodernism or are there other ways of viewing their work?not only their individual films but their entire output as a collective whole? In Constructing the Coens: From Blood Simpleto Inside Llewyn Davis, Allen H. Redmon looks beyond the postmodern sensibilities of every film written and directed by the Coens to find an unexpected range of recurring ideas expressed in and about contemporary film. In this volume, Redmon tackles all of the films in the Coen brothers' canon by examining?among other topics?