Table of Contents
Preface: Too Smart for Mainstream Media? Lynnea Chapman King v
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Dialogues and Intertextuality: No Country for Old Men as Fictional and Cinematic Text Rick Wallach xi
1 "You are the battleground": Materiality, Moral Responsibility, and Determinism in No Country for Old Men Linda Woodson 1
2 Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium" and McCarthy's No Country for Old Men: Art and Artifice in the Novel Steven Frye 13
3 For Whom Bell Tolls: Cormac McCarthy's Sheriff Bell as Spiritual Hero David Cremean 21
4 No Allegory for Casual Readers John Vanderheide 32
5 Oedipus Rests: Mimesis and Allegory in No Country for Old Men John Cant 46
6 Genre, Voice, and Ethos: McCarthy's Perverse "Thriller" Robert Jarrett 60
7 Borderline Evil: The Dark Side of Byzantium in No Country for Old Men, Novel and Film Jim Welsh 73
8 "Of what is past, or passing, or to come": Characters as Relics in No Country for Old Men Pat Tyrer Pat Nickell 86
9 Devil with a Bad Haircut: Postmodern Villainy Rides the Range in No Country for Old Men Scott Covell 95
10 For Every Tatter in Its Mortal Dress: Costume and Character in No Country for Old Men Sonya Topolnisky 110
11 "Hold still": Models of Masculinity in the Coens' No Country for Old Men Stacey Peebles 124
12 A Flip of the Coin: Gender Systems and Female Resistance in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men Erin K. Johns 139
13 Grace and Moss's End in No Country for Old Men Dennis Cutchins 155
14 Denial and Trepidation Awaiting What's Coming in the Coen Brothers' First Film Adaptation Dennis Rothermel 173
15 Cold-Blooded Coen Brothers: The Death Drive and NoCountry for Old Men Jason Landrum 199
16 "Just a cameraman": An Interview with Roger Deakins Lynnea Chapman King 219
Index 227
About the Editors and Contributors 235
