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Autore |
Symons Alex |
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Mel Brooks in the cultural industries : survival and prolonged adaptation / / Alex Symons [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2012 |
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0-7486-7648-1 |
0-7486-6448-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vi, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Soggetti |
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Adaptability (Psychology) |
Motion picture producers and directors - United States |
Motion picture actors and actresses - United States |
Screenwriters - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Rethinking Adaptation Studies: Survival Strategies in the Cultural Industries -- CHAPTER 2 From Sitcoms to ‘Parody-coms’: Writing for American TV, 1949–89 -- CHAPTER 3 Prolonged Stardom: Audio Records, TV and Film, 1961–2004 -- CHAPTER 4 Recycled Hollywood for the TV Generation: The Rise of Parody and the Fall of Mel Brooks the Director, 1974–95 -- CHAPTER 5 The Integration of the Film and Theatre Industries: The Producers, 1968–2007 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Which strategies has Mel Brooks used to survive, adapt and thrive in the cultural industries? How has he gained his reputation as a multimedia survivor? Alex Symons takes a unique, artist-focused approach in order to systematically identify the range of Brooks's adaptation strategies across the Hollywood film, Broadway theatre and American television industries. By combining a cultural industries approach together with that of adaptation studies, this book also identifies an important new industrial practice employed by Brooks - defined here as 'prolonged adaptation'. More significantly, Symons also employs this method to explain the so far neglected way that Brooks's adaptations have |
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