The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers by Cathleen Falsani
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- Pub. Date: October 2009
- 240pp
- Sales Rank: 15,127
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: October 2009
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Format: Paperback, 240pp
- Sales Rank: 15,127
- ISBN-13: 9780310292463
- ISBN: 0310292468
Synopsis
Join award-winning author and columnist Cathleen Falsani as she explores the serious existential questions raised in the movies of the wildly popular and always irreverent Coen brothers. Coen fans and film lovers will appreciate Falsani’s unique blend of contemporary insight and spiritual discernment that is both entertaining and illuminating.
Publishers Weekly
It must be true that God can be found even in the quirkiest of places. Chicago Sun-Times religion journalist Falsani mined the 14 films (since 1984) of Joel and Ethan Coen to find God and to articulate their spiritual and religious questions and challenges. The Coen brothers have a reputation for injecting a lot of dark humor into their movies, but as the author illustrates, the comedy is an avenue to deeper issues. Death, betrayal, greed, the seeming absence of God and the dire consequences of one's choices are the complex themes expertly handled by the filmmakers. Falsani does not posit that these films are overtly religious, but she does successfully convey their spiritual insights about the human condition. Each chapter provides a movie plot summary and concludes with an insightful segment dubbed “The Moral of the Story.” Falsani is an expert at pop culture analysis and her love for the celluloid arts shines forth brightly—her interpretations are nuanced and sophisticated without being pretentious. Film lovers, whether religious or not, will be pleased. (Oct.)
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Cathleen Falsani, author of Sin Boldly, The Dude Abides, and The God Factor, is the award-winning religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. She attended Wheaton College and also holds masters degrees in journalism and theology. She lives in Laguna Beach, California, with her husband and fellow journalist, Maurice Possley.
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Not what I was expecting.by Anonymous
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November 21, 2009: "The Big Lebowski" itself has a large cult following who see the Dude as a Buddhist-type leader, an inspiration as to what is right and what is wrong. This is what I had believed this book to be about. Instead, it is a text trying to pull Biblical allegory out of all Cohen Brothers' films. That's not to say such allegory doesn't exist, but it's not what I was looking for.
Not just religion...manby RevJJ
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October 05, 2009: This book isnt just great for all of us die hard Coen fans but also for people who want to learn a little more about the movies, in each chapter there is a brief introduction to the movies wich is very easy read and should get alot of new fans more interested to see the movies. Also, for the real fans out there, in the end of every chapter Cathleen Falsani writes about what she calls "The moral of the story" where she compares the movies to religion, and she does this in a very interesting and thoughtful way. Even though i dont always agree with what she writes its still a blast to read it, and as the book says in the introduction "I hope you´ll disagree with conclusions that dont ring true to you and draw you own". In the very end of it there are a few group study questions about the Coens, religion and movies, these questions is a great way to start a discussion and find out things you didnt know you thought about the Coens movies. Its a thought provoking book with many good points and just a fun read.
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