Refocus: The Films of Albert Brooks - The American Directors Series

Informationen zum Autor Dr Christian Long is an Academic Language and Learning Educator at Queensland University of Technology. Klappentext '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 University 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. 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 (c) Columbia Pictures Cover design: Stuart Dalziel [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-3425-6 Barcode Zusammenfassung Offers the first book-length investigation Albert Brooks' more than six-decade comedy career.

Product details

• Authors: Christian Long, LONG CHRISTIAN
• Assisted by: Christian Long (Editor), Christian B Long (Editor), Christian B. Long (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781474434256
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-3425-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 245 mm x 20 mm
• Series: ReFocus: The American Directors Series; Print on Demand; ReFocus: The American Directors Series; Refocus: The American Director
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre