Introduction: Are the Coen Brothers Religious Filmmakers? Or How Simple Is Blood Simple?
Act One: The Early Films: Reading Religion as...1. Morality in Raising Arizona2. Theology in Miller’s Crossing3. World Creation in Barton Fink4. Community in The Hudsucker Proxy
First Intermission: So Are the Coen Brothers Religious Filmmakers? Fargo between Christian Moralism and Post-Modern Irony
Act Two: The Middle Films: Analyzing Religion and...5. Fandom in The Big Lebowski6. Race in O Brother, Where Art Thou?7. Money in Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers8. The State in Burn after Reading
Second Intermission: Are the Coen Brothers Formally Coherent? No Country for Old Men between Time and Eternity
Act Three: The Later Films: Theorizing...9. Transcendence in The Man Who Wasn’t There10. Hermeneutics in A Serious Man11. Death in True Grit12. Absence in Inside Llewyn Davis
Epilogue: Hail, Caesar?