“Receive with Simplicity Everything That Happens to You”: Schlemiel (Meta)Physics in the Coens’ A Serious Man
Before Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2009 production A Serious Man, Jewish motifs have consistently appeared in their cinematic output. However, the Jewish characters functioned in an ethnically diverse setting and rarely took centre stage, with the notable exception of the eponymous struggling leftist play...
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Language: | English |
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Lodz University Press
2015-11-01
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Series: | Text Matters |
Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/6542 |