ReFocus : : The Films of Albert Brooks / / Christian B. Long.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
• VerfasserIn: Long, Christian B.,
• MitwirkendeR: Bell-Metereau, Rebecca,; Britt, Thomas,; Connor, J. D.,; Long, Christian B.,; Meinel, Dietmar,; Menne, Jeff,; Nystrom, Derek,; Percaccio, Frank,; Stubin, Enid,; Ue, Tom,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 24 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Notes on Contributors --; Acknowledgments 1 Introduction --; Part I Brooks as Media Critic --; 2 Your General Humor Buildup: Constructing Albert Brooks --; 3 The Counterculture Squared: Albert Brooks’s Saturday Night Live --; 4 Irony Ends in Why --; Part II Brooks as Auteur --; 5 When Success is Failure --; 6 Modern Romance: Albert Brooks’s Anatomy of Love --; 7 Easy Riders, Raging Yuppies: Lost in America and the Work of the Professional-Managerial Class --; 8 Defending Purgatorio: Dante, Brooks, and Finding One’s Celestial Place --; 9 Albert Brooks Channeling the Feminine --; Part III Brooks as Cultural Figure --; 10 Finding Brooks: Animating the Baby Boomer Generation in Finding Nemo --; 11 Debt, Payback, and Economics in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive --; Bibliography --; Filmography --; Recordings --; Television --; Writing --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474434263; 9783110753790; 9783110754032; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110780406
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474434263
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Christian B. Long.

Offers the first book-length investigation Albert Brooks’ more than six-decade comedy careerSituates Albert Brooks’ films in their cultural contexts, including representations of class, gender, religion, and raceAssesses Albert Brooks’ critical reputation and relative popularity, including his influence on contemporary filmmakers and comediansAnalyses every film written and directed by Albert Brooks, as well as a number of his acting and voice-over roles, his stand-up comedy albums, his talk show appearances, and his writing, both short-form and novelisticThis is the first sustained critical collection on Albert Brooks, one of the key but under-examined figures in American stand-up, television comedy and Hollywood film comedy. Analysing every film written and directed by Albert Brooks, including Real Life (1979), Modern Romance (1981) and Lost in America (1985), as well as a number of his acting and voice-over roles, his stand-up comedy albums, talk show appearances and writing, the book argues that Albert Brooks not only merits a wider viewership, both critical and popular, but also that his career offers a useful lens through which to understand American film and culture since the late 1960s.