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Alltid med en fot i filmhistorien : Coenbröderna i skärningspunkten mellan genrefilm och auteurfilm / Always with a Nod to Film History : The Coen Brothers at the Intersection of the Genre Film and the Auteur Film

The aim of this thesis is to study the films of the Coen brothers at the intersection of the auteur film and the genre film, by conducting a literature review of the current research on their films. By means of a hermeneutic approach, mainly focusing on the term of genre, four major themes have been established based on the literary review: genres and conventions, hybridization of genre, other art cinema features, and the spectator as auteur. The analysis of the previous research shows that all Coen films have strong genre affiliations, foremost pertaining to classic Hollywood genres such as film noir, screwball comedy, and western. Furthermore, the Coens use gamesome strategies such as hybridization and allusions, which can be regarded as art cinema features. The meaning making is thus to a large degree left to the audiences, allowing them to be placed in the position of the “auteur”. These gamelike strategies and the fact that audiences are given the role as sort of co-creator constitute key auteur features in the filmmaking of the Coen brothers, who could thus be defined as auteur filmmakers rather than mainstream genre filmmakers.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-121315
Date January 2023
CreatorsNordangård, Charlotte
PublisherLinnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageSwedish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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