{"product_id":"mel-brooks-in-the-cultural-industries-9780748649587","title":"Mel Brooks in the Cultural Industries","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlex 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction   A New Perspective on Mel Brooks   Mel Brooks: 'Multimedia Survivor' in the Cultural Industries   Materials and Methods    Rethinking Adaptation Studies: Survival Strategies in the Cultural Industries   Adaptations in the Modern Cultural Industries   Adaptation Terminology   Remediation   Hybridisation   Intermediality   Synergy   Prolonged Adaptation   Conclusion    From Sitcoms to 'Parody-coms': Writing for American TV, 1949-1989   The Intermedial Origins of the American Sitcom, 1949-1957   Get Smart: Reviving the American Sitcom, 1965-1970   The Modern Transformation of the American Sitcom, 1975-1989   When Things Were Rotten (ABC, 1975)   The Nutt House (NBC, 1989)    Prolonged Stardom: Audio Records, TV, and Film, 1961-2004   Adapting the 2000 Year Old Man, 1961-1983   Hollywood Film Actor, 1974-1987   A Transitional Performance: Life Stinks (1991)   Comedy Legend and Sitcom Actor, 1995-2004    Recycled Hollywood for the TV Generation: The Rise of Parody and the Fall of Mel Brooks the Director, 1974-1995   Rethinking New Hollywood: Intermedial Blockbusters in 1974   Blazing Saddles (1974)   Young Frankenstein (1974)   A New Film-Focused Strategy: The Fall of Mel Brooks, 1987-1995   Spaceballs (1987)   Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)   Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)    The Integration of the Film and Theatre Industries: The Producers, 1968-2007   The Producers (1968)   The Modern Revival of The Producers (1968)   The Broadway Adaptation: The Producers (2001)   Remade in Hollywood: The Producers (2005)   Conclusion   Bibliography   Index","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404502409559,"sku":"9780748649587","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780748649587.jpg?v=1730486658","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mel-brooks-in-the-cultural-industries-9780748649587","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}