03495nam 22006252 450 991081392730332120151002020704.00-7486-7648-10-7486-6448-310.1515/9780748664481(CKB)2670000000335330(CaPaEBR)ebrary11021561(SSID)ssj0001471333(PQKBManifestationID)11821850(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001471333(PQKBWorkID)11423391(PQKB)10008668(UkCbUP)CR9780748664481(StDuBDS)EDZ0000107565(MiAaPQ)EBC1364006(DE-B1597)614719(DE-B1597)9780748664481(OCoLC)1302163944(EXLCZ)99267000000033533020130327d2012|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMel Brooks in the cultural industries survival and prolonged adaptation /Alex Symons[electronic resource]Edinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,2012.1 online resource (vi, 226 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).1-322-98149-3 0-7486-4958-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexWhich 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 contributed towards changing production trends, changes in critical attitudes, and towards the ongoing integration of the cultural industries today.Adaptability (Psychology)Motion picture producers and directorsUnited StatesMotion picture actors and actressesUnited StatesScreenwritersUnited StatesAdaptability (Psychology)Motion picture producers and directorsMotion picture actors and actressesScreenwriters791.092Symons Alex1704684UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910813927303321Mel Brooks in the cultural industries4090853UNINA