The political Mel Brooks
The Political Mel Brooks analyzes both Mel Brooks's more popular and lesser-known works to explore how his use of parody and satire, his keen sense of the history of Jewish comedic conventions, and his deep awareness of social issues encompass a political project that, while often implicit, non...
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Lexington Books
[2019]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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