Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Collected Screenplays: Raising Arizona/Blood Simple/Miller’s Crossing/Barton Fink

　　These four early works by the internationally lauded filmmaking team deal with the subject for which they are best known: corruption and crime in situations that combine the real and the surreal with the hilarious. Of the scripts included here, Barton Fink--an intense look at the psychological ruin of a New York playwright trying to make it in 1940s Hollywood--is a masterful culmination of these themes.

About the Author

　　Ethan and Joel Coen have made nine critically acclaimed films together. They received an Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1997 for Fargo.