The films of Albert Brooks / edited by Christian B. Long.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Long, Christian B., Author.

Contributor:

Long, Christian B., 1975- editor.

Series:

ReFocus. The American directors series.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

ReFocus. The American directors series

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brooks, Albert, 1947---Criticism and interpretation.

Brooks, Albert.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This is a 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.

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

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 10, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Long, Christian B. ReFocus: the Films of Albert Brooks

ISBN:

1-4744-3427-4

1-3995-0901-2

1-4744-3426-6

OCLC:

1293249964