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The films of Albert Brooks / edited by Christian B. Long.
LIBRA PN1998.3.B766 F56 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- ReFocus, the American directors series
- ReFocus: The American Directors Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brooks, Albert, 1947---Criticism and interpretation.
- Brooks, Albert.
- Brooks, Albert, 1947-.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Films of Albert Brooks
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Christian B. Long
- pt. I Brooks as Media Critic
- 2. Your General Humor Buildup: Constructing Albert Brooks / J. D. Connor
- 3. The Counterculture Squared: Albert Brooks's Saturday Night Live / Jeff Menne
- 4. Irony Ends in Why / Thomas Britt
- pt. II Brooks as Auteur
- 5. When Success is Failure / Christian B. Long
- 6. Modern Romance: Albert Brooks's Anatomy of Love / Enid Stubin
- 7. Easy Riders, Raging Yuppies: Lost in America and the Work of the Professional-Managerial Class / Derek Nystrom
- 8. Defending Purgatorio: Dante, Brooks, and Finding One's Celestial Place / Frank Percaccio
- 9. Albert Brooks Channeling the Feminine / Rebecca Bell-Metereau
- pt. III Brooks as Cultural Figure
- 10. Finding Brooks: Animating the Baby Boomer Generation in Finding Nemo / Dietmar Meinel
- 11. Debt, Payback, and Economics in Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive / Tom Ue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781474434256
- 1474434258
- OCLC:
- 1250365340
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