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