erica rowell

In 1984 Joel and Ethan Coen burst onto the art-house film scene with their neo-noir "Blood Simple," and ever since they have sharpened the cutting edge of independent film.

Blending black humor and violence with unconventional narrative twists, their acclaimed movies evoke highly charged worlds of passion, absurdity, nightmare realms, and petty human failures, all the while revealing the filmmakers' penchant for visual jokes and bravura technical strokes.

Rowell's first book, "The Brothers Grim: The Films of Ethan and Joel Coen" (Scarecrow Press, 2007), dissects the cinema of the filmmaking duo known as the Coen brothers ("Fargo," "The Big Lebowski," "No Country for Old Men").

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We are on an unsustainable course. While world populations and consumption grow, resources diminish and global warming threatens our way of life. We must find a more sustainable path. But how?

In The Green Grok, Dr. Bill Chameides elucidates causes of and potential remedies for environmental change and identifies pathways towards a more sustainable future. Meet the Grok team.

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