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The films of Albert Brooks
Offers the first book-length investigation Albert Brooks' more than six-decade comedy career.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | ReFocus, the American directors series.
Film, media, and cultural studies. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Christian B. Long
- Part I. Brooks as Media Critic: 2. Your General Humor Buildup: Constructing Albert Brooks / J.D. Connor ; 3. The Counterculture Squared: Albert Brooks's Saturday Night Live / Jeff Menne ; 4. Irony Ends in Why / Thomas Britt
- Part II. Brooks as Auteur: 5. When Success is Failure / Christian B. Long ; 6. Modern Romance: Albert Brooks's Anatomy of Love / Enid Stubin ; 7. Easy Riders, Raging Yuppies: Lost in America and the Work of the Professional-Managerial Class / Derek Nystrom ; 8. Defending Purgatorio: Dante, Brooks, and Finding One's Celestial Place / Frank Percaccio ; 9. Albert Brooks Channeling the Feminine / Rebecca Bell-Metereau
- Part III. Brooks as Cultural Figure: 10. Finding Brooks: Animating the Baby Boomer Generation in Finding Nemo / Dietmar Meinel ; 11. Debt, Payback, and Economics in Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive / Tom Ue.