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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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction, Christian B. Long
2. Irony Ends in Why, Thomas Britt
3. The Counterculture Squared: Albert Brooks' Saturday Night Live, Jeff Menne
4. Your General Humor Buildup: Constructing Albert Brooks, JD Connor
5. When Success is Failure, Christian B. Long
6. Easy Riders, Raging Yuppies: Lost in America and the Work of the Professional-Managerial Class, Derek Nystrom
7. Albert Brooks Channeling the Feminine, Rebecca Bell-Metereau
8. Defending Purgatorio: Dante, Brooks, and Finding One's Celestial Place, Frank Percaccio
9. Albert Brooks' Anatomy of Love, Enid Stubin
10. Finding Brooks: Animating the Baby Boomer Generation in Finding Nemo, Dietmar Meinel
11. Debt, Payback, and Economics in Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, Tom Ue
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