Cool Ocean's Breeze (Ocean's 11/12/13/8 Analysis) | A Video Essay

In this video I explore the ways coolness is constructed across the Ocean's franchise. Who gets to be cool in a heist film, what does that look like and what exactly does that mean? Part One: 2:11 Part Two: 7:27 Part Three: 14:50 Part Four: 21:55 Conclusion: 26:43 Bibliography: Daryl Lee, The Heist Film: Stealing with Style, 2014 David Bordwell, One last big job: How heist movies tell their stories, 2017 (http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/201...) Jeannette Sloniowski, Jim Leach, Best Laid Plans, 2017 Karen McNally, When Frankie Went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity, 2008 Nicola Rehling, Extra-Ordinary Men: White Heterosexual Masculinity and Contemporary Popular Cinema, 2010 Paul Mason, Criminal Visions, 2012 R. Barton Palmer, Steven Sander, The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh Music: Ocean's 11: Main Theme, David Holmes, 2001 Ocean's 12: L.S.D. Partie, Roland Vincent, 2004 A Little Less Conversation, Elvis Presley, 1970 Ocean's 11: 160 Million Chinese Man, David Holmes, 2001 Ocean's 8: NYC Larceny, Daniel Pemberton, 2018 Ocean's 13: All Sewn Up, David Holmes, 2007 Ocean's 12: The A La Menthe (The Laser Dance Song), La Caution, 2004