ReFocus: The Films of Albert Brooks (ReFocus: The American Directors) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474434282 ISBN 13: 9781474434287

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2023

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This 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.

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Dr Christian Long is an Academic Language and Learning Educator at Queensland University of Technology.

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‘This collection of essays makes the case for Albert Brooks’s multi-faceted significance as a pioneer of meta-comedy, a satirist of baby-boomer complicity, and a prophet of fail culture. America has spent the last half-century trailing Brooks. This book catches up with him.’Robert J. King, Columbia UniversityThis 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.Christian B. Long works in the Graduate School at the University of Queensland.Cover image: Albert Brooks and Bruno Kirby in Modern Romance, 1981, directed by Albert Brooks. Columbia Pictures/Photofest © Columbia PicturesCover design: Stuart Dalziel[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-3425-6Barcode

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1474434282
• ISBN 13: 9781474434287
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 267
• Herausgeber: Long Christian B.
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