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Mel Brooks : disobedient jew

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

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Additional Authors
Yale University Press, publisher.
Description
201 pages : portrait; 22 cm.
Summary
"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
Jewish lives
Uniform Title
Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
Subject
  • Brooks, Mel, 1926-
  • Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography
  • Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography
  • Comedians > United States > Biography
  • Jewish motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography
  • Jewish actors > United States > Biography
  • Jewish comedians > United States > Biography
  • Comedians
  • Jewish actors
  • Jewish comedians
  • Jewish motion picture producers and directors
  • Motion picture actors and actresses
  • Motion picture producers and directors
  • United States
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-189) and index.
Call Number
MWES (Brooks, M.) 23-4379
ISBN
  • 0300244274
  • 9780300244274
LCCN
2022933159
OCLC
1341203053
Author
Dauber, Jeremy, 1973- author.
Title
Mel Brooks : disobedient jew / Jeremy Dauber.
Publisher
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2023]
Copyright Date
©2023
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Jewish lives
Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-189) and index.
Added Author
Yale University Press, publisher.
Other Form:
ebook version : 9780300264913
Research Call Number
MWES (Brooks, M.) 23-4379
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