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03019aam a22003978i 4500 001 AA476894F17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240403010045 008 230929s2024 msu q 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023038213 020 $a 1496849973 020 $a 9781496849977 020 $a 1496849981 020 $a 9781496849984 035 $a (OCoLC)1396694446 040 $a MsSM/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN1998.3 B7595 G74 20245 245 00 $a Albert Brooks : $b interviews / $c edited by Alexander Greenhough. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm 490 1 $a Conversations with filmmakers series 500 $a Includes filmography. 500 $a Includes index. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Brooks, Albert, $d 1947- $v Interviews. 650 0 $a Motion picture producers and directors $z United States $v Interviews. 650 0 $a Comedians $z United States $v Interviews. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x Production and direction $z United States. 700 1 $a Greenhough, Alexander, $e editor. 776 08 $i Online version: $t Albert brooks $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2024 $z 9781496849991 $w (DLC) 2023038214 830 0 $a Conversations with filmmakers series. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502013020.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AA476894F17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search