ReFocus : : The Films of Albert Brooks /

ReFocus : : The Films of Albert Brooks / / 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 influ...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 24 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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