The political Mel Brooks / edited by Samuel Boerboom and Beth E. Bonnstetter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boerboom, Samuel, editor.

Bonnstetter, Beth E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brooks, Mel, 1926---Criticism and interpretation.

Brooks, Mel.

Brooks, Mel, 1926-.

Politics in motion pictures.

Social problems in motion pictures.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vi, 202 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2019]

Contents:

Introduction: (re)discovering the political Mel Brooks / Samuel Boerboom and Beth E. Bonnstetter

The popular (and political) Mel Brooks: a selective review of scholarship and criticism / Samuel Boerboom and Melissa Bohem

"Where the white women at?": demolishing the myth of the West / Richard Loosbrock

"A torch to light the way": the visual rhetoric of Blazing saddles / Leanne Stuart Pupchek

The very rotten 1970s: Mel Brooks's satire of politics in the age of Ford / Lisa Ellert, Micayla Lander, and James McCauley

Not just a dresser: to be or not to be and the case of Sasha Kinski / Samuel Boerboom

Spaceballs as Mel Brook's parodic prophecy of franchise fascism / Garret l. Castleberry and William McMurry

The framing of poverty in Mel Brooks's Life stinks: a content and textual analysis / Melissa Boehm

What a meshugenner! Mel Brooks's politics of Jewish humor / Matt Meier

"When you got it, flaunt it": white masculinity and sexuality in The producers

Kimberley Hannah-Prater

"We're both short jews. That's where it ends": the problematics of comparing Mel Brooks and Woody Allen / Beth E. Bonnstetter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781498586702

1498586708

OCLC:

1096221700