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Mel Brooks in the Cultural Industries

Autor Alex Symons
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 aug 2012
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? In Mel Brooks in the Cultural Industries: Survival and Prolonged Adaptation, 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. An essential read for film students and scholars researching adaptation, this refreshing new approach will also be valued by everyone studying the cultural industries. Dr Alex Symons was awarded his PhD by the Department of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780748649587
ISBN-10: 0748649581
Pagini: 226
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 163 x 236 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Cuprins

Introduction A New Perspective on Mel Brooks Mel Brooks: 'Multimedia Survivor' in the Cultural Industries Materials and Methods Rethinking Adaptation Studies: Survival Strategies in the Cultural Industries Adaptations in the Modern Cultural Industries Adaptation Terminology Remediation Hybridisation Intermediality Synergy Prolonged Adaptation Conclusion From Sitcoms to 'Parody-coms': Writing for American TV, 1949-1989 The Intermedial Origins of the American Sitcom, 1949-1957 Get Smart: Reviving the American Sitcom, 1965-1970 The Modern Transformation of the American Sitcom, 1975-1989 When Things Were Rotten (ABC, 1975) The Nutt House (NBC, 1989) Prolonged Stardom: Audio Records, TV, and Film, 1961-2004 Adapting the 2000 Year Old Man, 1961-1983 Hollywood Film Actor, 1974-1987 A Transitional Performance: Life Stinks (1991) Comedy Legend and Sitcom Actor, 1995-2004 Recycled Hollywood for the TV Generation: The Rise of Parody and the Fall of Mel Brooks the Director, 1974-1995 Rethinking New Hollywood: Intermedial Blockbusters in 1974 Blazing Saddles (1974) Young Frankenstein (1974) A New Film-Focused Strategy: The Fall of Mel Brooks, 1987-1995 Spaceballs (1987) Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) The Integration of the Film and Theatre Industries: The Producers, 1968-2007 The Producers (1968) The Modern Revival of The Producers (1968) The Broadway Adaptation: The Producers (2001) Remade in Hollywood: The Producers (2005) Conclusion Bibliography Index