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Butler Libraries Film Series: Fargo

A Guide to supplement the new Butler Libraries Film Series, launched September 2023

More on Fargo

The Brothers Grim: the Films of Ethan and Joel Coen by Erica Rowell
Publication Date: 2007
The Coen Brothers' Fargo by William Luhr
Publication Date: 2004
The Coen Brothers' America by M. Keith Booker
Publication Date: 2019
The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers by Mark T. Conard
Publication Date: 2008
The Cinema of the Coen Brothers by Jeffrey Adams
Publication Date: 2015

Joel & Ethan Coen plus Frances McDormand on Fargo (1997)

Further Reading

Deadly Plot by a Milquetoast Villian
Maslin, Janet. The New York Times. March 8, 1996.
Fargo [Review]
McKinney, Devin. Film Quarterly. Vol. 50, no.1. Autumn 1996.
Fargo [Review]
Ebert, Roger. rogerebert.com [1996]
"Flare to White": Fargo and the Postmodern Turn
Carter, Steven. Literature/Film Quarterly. Vol. 27, no.4. 1999.
"Fargo": Struggle for the Vehicle
Lee, Scott. Canadian Journal of Film Studies. Vol. 11, no. 1. Spring 2002.
Colliding Worlds: the Disintegration of America in the Films of the Coen Brothers
Carstensen, Thorsten. Journal of American Studies. Vol. 53, no. 2. May 2019.

Further Viewing

Blood Simple by Ethan Coen
Publication Date: 1984
Barton Fink by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Publication Date: 1991
Miller's Crossing by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Publication Date: 1990
No Country for Old Men by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Publication Date: 2007
The Big Lebowski by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Publication Date: 1998

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