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Mel Brooks : disobedient jew

Title
  1. Mel Brooks : disobedient jew / Jeremy Dauber.
Published by
  1. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2023]
  2. ©2023
Author
  1. Dauber, Jeremy, 1973-

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Additional authors
  1. Yale University Press, publisher.
Description
  1. 201 pages : portrait; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. "Mel Brooks, born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, is one of the great comic voices of the twentieth century. Having won almost every entertainment award there is, Brooks has straddled the line between outsider and insider, obedient and rebellious, throughout his career, making out-of-bounds comedy the American mainstream. Jeremy Dauber argues that throughout Brooks's extensive body of work -- from Your Show of Shows to Blazing Saddles to Young Frankenstein to Spaceballs -- the comedian has seen the most success when he found a balance between his unflagging, subversive, manic energy and the constraints imposed by comedic partners, the Hollywood system, and American cultural mores. Dauber also explores how Brooks's American Jewish humor went from being solely for niche audiences to an essential part of the American mainstream, paving the way for generations of Jewish (and other) comedians to come." --
Series statement
  1. Jewish lives
Uniform title
  1. Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
Subject
  1. Brooks, Mel, 1926-
  2. Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography
  3. Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography
  4. Comedians > United States > Biography
  5. Jewish motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography
  6. Jewish actors > United States > Biography
  7. Jewish comedians > United States > Biography
  8. Comedians
  9. Jewish actors
  10. Jewish comedians
  11. Jewish motion picture producers and directors
  12. Motion picture actors and actresses
  13. Motion picture producers and directors
  14. United States
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies.
Call number
  1. MWES (Brooks, M.) 23-4379
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-189) and index.
Author
  1. Dauber, Jeremy, 1973- author.
Title
  1. Mel Brooks : disobedient jew / Jeremy Dauber.
Publisher
  1. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2023]
Copyright date
  1. ©2023
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Jewish lives
  2. Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-189) and index.
Added author
  1. Yale University Press, publisher.
Other form:
  1. ebook version : 9780300264913
LCCN
  1. 2022933159
ISBN
  1. 0300244274 hardcover
  2. 9780300244274 hardcover
Research call number
  1. MWES (Brooks, M.) 23-4379
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