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Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein: The 50th Anniversary of the Year of Mel Brooks
by Hallenbeck, Bruce G.
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Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein: A 50th Anniversary Tribute to Two Mel Brooks Comedy Classics explores in depth the zeitgeist that led to 1974 becoming "the year of Mel Brooks." It was that year that Brooks pulled off the one-two punch of two of his greatest comedies, and indeed two of the most enduring American comedies ever: Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.
Although both films are well-known, the stories beyond the making of each movie are less so-- how they came to be and how the era's pop-culture trends not only permitted them to be made, but caused them to become the lasting comedy classics that they are recognized as today. The two movies certainly have their differences: Blazing Saddles is a riotous send-up of Westerns whose edgy approach to race and sex would have prevented it from being made even a few years earlier--the censorship of the time would not have allowed it. Young Frankenstein, Brooks' immediate follow-up, looked further back in cinema history to parody the old classic Universal horror movies, produced in glorious black and white. But both films were not only hilarious, but they played with charged social and cultural themes in an inimitable way, not only raising the bar for modern comedies, but reshaping the two genres they were sending up.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Hallenbeck, Bruce G.
- ISBN: 9781493078004
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.00
- Number Of Pages: 256
- Publication Year: 2024
Language:
English