No Country for Old Men From Novel to Film

In "No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film," scholars offer varied approaches to both the novel and the award-winning film. Beginning with several essays dedicated entirely to the novel and its place within the McCarthy canon, the anthology offers subsequent essays focusing on the film, the adaptation process, and the Coen Brothers more broadly. The book also features an interview with the Coen brothers' long-time cinematographer Roger Deakins. This entertaining and enriching book for readers interested in the Coen Brothers' films and in McCarthey's fiction is an important contribution to both Literature and Film Studies.

Lynnea Chapman King teaches film and literature at Butler Community College, Andover, Kansas. Rick Wallach is editor of The Cormac McCarthy Journal. Jim Welsh is professor emeritus of English at Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland.

Preface: Too Smart for Mainstream Media?	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Dialogues and Intertextuality: No Country for Old Men as Fictional and Cinematic Text	p. xi
"You are the battleground": Materiality, Moral Responsibility, and Determinism in No Country for Old Men	p. 1
Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium" and McCarthy's No Country for Old Men: Art and Artifice in the Novel	p. 13
For Whom Bell Tolls: Cormac McCarthy's Sheriff Bell as Spiritual Hero	p. 21
No Allegory for Casual Readers	p. 32
Oedipus Rests: Mimesis and Allegory in No Country for Old Men	p. 46
Genre, Voice, and Ethos: McCarthy's Perverse "Thriller"	p. 60
Borderline Evil: The Dark Side of Byzantium in No Country for Old Men, Novel and Film	p. 73
"Of what is past, or passing, or to come": Characters as Relics in No Country for Old Men	p. 86
Devil with a Bad Haircut: Postmodern Villainy Rides the Range in No Country for Old Men	p. 95
For Every Tatter in Its Mortal Dress: Costume and Character in No Country for Old Men	p. 110
"Hold still": Models of Masculinity in the Coens' No Country for Old Men	p. 124
A Flip of the Coin: Gender Systems and Female Resistance in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men	p. 139
Grace and Moss's End in No Country for Old Men	p. 155
Denial and Trepidation Awaiting What's Coming in the Coen Brothers' First Film Adaptation	p. 173
Cold-Blooded Coen Brothers: The Death Drive and No Country for Old Men	p. 199
"Just a cameraman": An Interview with Roger Deakins	p. 219
Index	p. 227
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 235
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