Mel Brooks--Seriously!
A National Medal of Arts winner, Mel Brooks has kept us in stitches for 70 years, laughing at the human condition. Brooks is well known for his New York Jewish humor, but as Roger Ebert says, the engines that drive his comedy have rarely been noticed.
This work offers new insights into Brooks'' creative genius. Fifteen scholars discuss the social satire and genre parody that fuel well-known ...
A National Medal of Arts winner, Mel Brooks has kept us in stitches for 70 years, laughing at the human condition. Brooks is well known for his New York Jewish humor, but as Roger Ebert says, the engines that drive his comedy have rarely been noticed.
This work offers new insights into Brooks'' creative genius. Fifteen scholars discuss the social satire and genre parody that fuel well-known ...