MEL BROOKS
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The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on specifically evaluating the body of work by the=20
multi-talented Mel Brooks for the 2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston,=20=
Massachusetts,=20
April 4-7, 2007.
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Since his days as a writer for Sid Caesar=E2=80=99s Your Show of Shows, Mel=20=
Brooks=20
has been a significant force in television and motion pictures, and, most=20
recently, on Broadway. His body of work includes the recordings, with Carl=20=
Reiner,=20
of his character The 2,000-Year-Old Man, creating with Buck Henry the Don=20
Adams spy spoof Get Smart, producing such important films as The Elephant Ma=
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writing and directing such films as The Twelve Chairs, The Producers, Blazin=
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Saddles and Young Frankenstein, and writing and composing the music for the=20
Broadway adaptation of The Producers, the most Tony-award winning musical in=
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Broadway history.
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Presentation proposals should examine Mel Brooks and his influence on popula=
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culture. You may choose to examine one particular project or a selected bod=
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of his work (e.g., his film spoofs of film genres such as science fiction or=
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westerns). You may also choose to examine his use of Nazis in many of his=20
films -- even anachronistically -- and centrally in his film adaptation of E=
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Lubitsch=E2=80=99s 1941 film To Be or Not To Be and his early film and music=
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The Producers. =20
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Proposals should be approximately 250 words in length and must include your=20
mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
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All proposals should be emailed to both the Area Chair and Associate Area=20
Chair. DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS. Please copy-and-paste your proposal into t=
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email message.
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Area Chair: Daniel Walden -- dxw8_at_psu.edu
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Associate Area Chair: Barbara Silliman -- JewishStudiesPCA_at_aol.com
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Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2006

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