Cormac McCarthy

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Film 35	No Country For Old Genres: McCarthy, The Coens, and the Neo-Western Genre is often a rather nebulous classification, lumping various media into groups based upon a broad set of shared characteristics.... JohnArthur Nov 26, 2015
Literature 63	Blood Meridian: What Makes a Book “Unfilmable?” Perhaps the most common stereotype about book adaptations is that “the book is always better than the movie.” The reasons... Mariana Apr 6, 2015
Literature 30	Blood Meridian: Excessive Violence and Its Implications on the Human Condition Among other things, the world is a violent place. All we have to do is turn on the news or... S.A. Takacs Dec 26, 2014
Literature 22	Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: Death, Love, and a Dying Earth The Road, written by Cormac McCarthy, is a powerful and poetically convincing exploration of a dying earth riven by an... John McDonald Jul 30, 2014
Literature 20	Cormac McCarthy: An American Philosophy One of the more preeminent and influential American novelists, screenwriters, and playwrights of the 20th century, Cormac McCarthy has presented... Sean Buckley May 26, 2014
Literature 49	No Country for Old Men: Choice, Chance, and Being In Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, the first allusion to the character Anton Chigurh comes when Sheriff Ed Bell... Citizen Shane Apr 5, 2014
Film 28	Fancy Talk: When Characters Are Too Smart For Their Own Good What do you make of that quote? Is it a passage from one of Nietzsches' works? Or perhaps it's an... ****** Feb 26, 2014
Film 18	Before ‘The Counselor’: Examining the Novelist as Screenwriter Set to release for this fall, The Counselor, is the latest Hollywood feature film to be penned by a novelist.... Frank Caracciolo Aug 16, 2013