Albert Brooks
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-4997-7 (ISBN)
Albert Brooks: Interviews brings together fourteen profiles of and conversations with Brooks (b. 1947), in which he contemplates, expounds upon, and hilariously jokes about the connections between his show business upbringing, an ambivalence about the film industry, the nature of fame and success, and the meaning and purpose of comedy. Throughout all these encounters, Brooks expresses an unwavering commitment to his own artistic expression as a filmmaker and a rejection of mainstream conventions. With his questioning and critical disposition, nothing seems certain for Albert Brooks except for the integrity of art and the necessity for a wry skepticism about the incongruities of everyday life in corporate America.
Brooks is neither a Hollywood insider nor an outsider. He’s somewhere in-between. Since the early 1970s, this inimitable actor-writer-director has incisively satirized the mass media system from within. After initial work as an inventive comedian, both live and on network television, Brooks contributed six shorts to the first season of Saturday Night Live, which earned him a cult following for their avant-garde form and sensibility. These were followed by his feature debut, Real Life, the first of only seven films—including Modern Romance, Lost in America, and Defending Your Life—that Brooks has directed to date. His limited output reflects not only the difficulty in financing idiosyncratic films, but equally the exacting seriousness which Brooks has in making audiences laugh and think at the same time.
Alexander Greenhough teaches in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. His work has appeared in such publications as Mediascape, Film Criticism, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
Introduction
Chronology
Filmography
Every Kid Should Have an Albert
Paul Slansky / 1979
Brooks’s "Modern" Role: Mr. Nice Guy, He Is Not
Patrick Goldstein / 1981
Albert Brooks Is Funnier Than You Think
Paul Slansky / 1983
Seriously, Here’s Albert Brooks
David Elliott / 1985
Real Afterlife
Robert DiMatteo / 1991
Albert Brooks
Bill Zehme / 1991
Albert Brooks: Albert Alone
Murray Murry / 1993
It’s Albert
Alison Rose / 1994
Problem Child
David Handelman / 1997
All the Choices
Gavin Smith / 1999
Albert Brooks
Joe Rhodes / 1999
Good Morning Pakistan: Albert Brooks on the Move
Terry Gross / 2006
Albert Brooks
Scott Tobias / 2006
I Want a Sense of Reality
Alexander Greenhough / 2018
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.01.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Conversations with Filmmakers Series |
| Verlagsort | Jackson |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 272 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV | |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4968-4997-3 / 1496849973 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4968-4997-7 / 9781496849977 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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