Brooks, Mel

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Melvin Brooks

Melvin Kaminsky

Melvyn Brooks

Melvin James Kaminsky

Melvyn Kaminsky

Darsteller*in

The Producers

The Critic

To be or not to be

The Producers

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You

The Last Laugh;The Last Laugh

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Geniale Göttin - Die Geschichte von Hedy Lamarr

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The popular (and political) Mel Brooks : a selective review of scholarship and criticism.

Not just a dresser : to be or not to be and the case of Sasha Kinski.

"We're both short Jews. That's where it ends" : the problematics of comparing Mel Brooks and Woody Allen.

Ethics and ethnicity in the plays of Arthur Miller.

Elmer Rice; liberation, and the great ethnic question.

Yiddish origins and Jewish-American transformations.

The Jew as comic : Lenny Bruce, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen.

Paddy Chayefsky's Jews and Jewish dialogues.

"When you got It, flaunt It" : White Masculinity and Sexuality in "The Producers" (2005).

The Americanization of the Holocaust on stage and screen.

Von der Schmierenkomödie zur Broadway-Show : "To Be or Not to Be" und der polnische Widerstand; Mel Brooks' Nazi-Spott und seine exzentrische Position.

The Jew in stand-up comedy.

Lillian Hellman, "the first Jewish nun on Prytania Street".

The "mental comedies" of Saul Bellow.

Mel Brooks and the cinema of exhaustion.

Yiddish theater and American theater.

Woody Allen; the failure of the therapeutic.

Mel Brooks' subversive cabaret : "The Producers" (1968).

Clifford Odets and the Jewish context.

Some intersections of Jews, music and theater.

Fanny Brice and Sophie Tucker; blending the particular with the universal.

The vanishing act; a typology of the Jew in the contemporary American film.

Neil Simon's Jewish-style comedies.

"A Ring of Fire" : humor and the Holocaust.

Jules Feiffer and the comedy of disenchantment.