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Mel Brooks in the Cultural Industries: Survival and Prolonged Adaptation
Alex Symons
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Description for Mel Brooks in the Cultural Industries: Survival and Prolonged Adaptation
Hardcover. Alex Symons takes a unique, artist-focused approach in order to systematically identify the range of Brooks's adaptation strategies across the Hollywood film, Broadway theatre and American television industries. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 165 x 238 x 17. Weight in Grams: 464. Survival and Prolonged Adaptation. 232 pages, Illustrations. Alex Symons takes a unique, artist-focused approach in order to systematically identify the range of Brooks's adaptation strategies across the Hollywood film, Broadway theatre and American television industries. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: APF; JFD. Dimension: 165 x 238 x 17. Weight: 464.
Which strategies has Mel Brooks used to survive, adapt and thrive in the cultural industries? How has he gained his reputation as a multimedia survivor? Alex Symons takes a unique, artist-focused approach in order to systematically identify the range of Brooks's adaptation strategies across the Hollywood film, Broadway theatre and American television industries. By combining a cultural industries approach together with that of adaptation studies, this book also identifies an important new industrial practice employed by Brooks - defined here as 'prolonged adaptation'. More significantly, Symons also employs this method to explain the so far neglected way that Brooks's ... Read more
Which strategies has Mel Brooks used to survive, adapt and thrive in the cultural industries? How has he gained his reputation as a multimedia survivor? Alex Symons takes a unique, artist-focused approach in order to systematically identify the range of Brooks's adaptation strategies across the Hollywood film, Broadway theatre and American television industries. By combining a cultural industries approach together with that of adaptation studies, this book also identifies an important new industrial practice employed by Brooks - defined here as 'prolonged adaptation'. More significantly, Symons also employs this method to explain the so far neglected way that Brooks's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748649587
SKU
V9780748649587
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About Alex Symons
Dr Alex Symons was awarded his PhD by the Department of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham. Articles of his research have been published in the Journal of Popular Film and Television, the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, and in Celebrity Studies.
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