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Author:   Christian B. Long (Educator, Queensland University of Technology.)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474434256

ISBN 10:   1474434258
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   31 August 2021
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of 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 Contributors

Reviews

"This collection of essays makes the case for Albert Brooks's multi-faceted significance as a pioneer of meta-comedy, a satirist of baby-boomer complicity, and a prophet of fail culture. America has spent the last half century trailing Brooks. This book catches up with him.-- ""Robert J. King, Columbia University"" This collection of 11 essays argues for the importance of Brooks not only as a comic force but also as a skilled filmmaker who has deftly documented the absurdity and disappointments of the ""professional-managerial"" class of the late 20th century. Notable contributions include those on the yuppie figure in Lost in America, Brooks's ""ability to channel the female experience"" through his collaborations with writer Monica Johnson, and the writer/director's criticism of media dynamic sutilizing ""anti-humor"" in films from Real Life to Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World. [...] Highly recommended.--S. B. Skelton, Kansas State University ""CHOICE"""

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Dr Christian Long is an Academic Language and Learning Educator at Queensland University of Technology.

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