Mel Brooks in the Cultural Industries : : Survival and Prolonged Adaptation / / Alex Symons.
Which strategies has Mel Brooks used to survive, adapt and thrive in the cultural industries? How has he gained his reputation as a multimedia survivor? Alex Symons takes a unique, artist-focused approach in order to systematically identify the range of Brooks’s adaptation strategies across the Holl...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 8 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 Rethinking Adaptation Studies: Survival Strategies in the Cultural Industries
- CHAPTER 2 From Sitcoms to ‘Parody-coms’: Writing for American TV, 1949–89
- CHAPTER 3 Prolonged Stardom: Audio Records, TV and Film, 1961–2004
- CHAPTER 4 Recycled Hollywood for the TV Generation: The Rise of Parody and the Fall of Mel Brooks the Director, 1974–95
- CHAPTER 5 The Integration of the Film and Theatre Industries: The Producers, 1968–2007
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index