McBride’s new book: ‘The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers’

Professor of Cinema Joseph McBride’s latest book is “The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers” (Anthem Press). It is an incisive critical study of the quirky team of filmmaking brothers who delight in unsettling cinematic conventions and confounding audiences while raising disturbing questions about human nature. Their films include the acclaimed cult favorites “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski” and “No Country for Old Men.” 

“Gremlins” director Joe Dante said: “Joseph McBride, long one of our most respected film historians, adds to his estimable appraisals of the likes of Ford, Capra, Hawks, Welles, Lubitsch and Spielberg with an incisive analysis (and often impassioned defense) of the often-misunderstood works of the iconoclastic Coen brothers.”