All posts by J. M. Tyree and Ben Walters

July 31st, 2009

The Rumpus Gets Smart: The Definitive Essay on Dudeness

“If you were a man, a real man, you’d slap me.”

- ‘Young Hussy’ in the wrestling screenplay of Barton Fink.

If the Coen Brothers’ oeuvre might be described as an extended frolic through the archives of film history, it is also a re-examination of the classic themes of 1940s Hollywood and, above all, the notion of what it means to be a man. …more

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J. M. Tyree's essay "On the Implausibility of the Death Star's Trash Compactor" appeared in the anthology Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: Best of McSweeney's Humor Category (Knopf/Vintage). He is the co-author, with Ben Walters, of BFI Film Classics: The Big Lebowski, published by the British Film institute. He is currently a Writer-at-Large for Film Quarterly, and teaches creative writing at Stanford University. Ben Walters has written books on Orson Welles and The Office. He introduced a double screening of The Big Sleep and The Big Lebowski at the Barbican Cinema in 2007, as well as introducing the Coen Brothers Season "O Brother!" at the BFI Southbank Center in 2008. He lives in London.

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