{"product_id":"elaine-may-paperback-softback-9780252088582","title":"Elaine May (Paperback \/ softback) 9780252088582","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eElaine May\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElizabeth Alsop (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252088582\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 January 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages, 30 black \u0026amp; white photographs\u003cbr\u003e21 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.254 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“A dynamic analysis that celebrates and problematizes an influential, complex, multifaceted, and singular artist and talent. Alsop makes revelatory connections between May's formative start in live comedy improv, as a writer for theater and film, and as a performer on stage and screen to not only track May’s unique style, but to understand her creative process.”--Maya MontaÑez Smukler, author of \u003ci\u003eLiberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA master of subverting tropes with surgical precision, Elaine May forged a career in 1970s Hollywood with films like \u003ci\u003eThe Heartbreak Kid\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMikey and Nicky\u003c\/i\u003e. Elizabeth Alsop explores the director’s non-conformist and uncompromising vision while looking at May’s films against trends in classic and post-classical Hollywood. Shaped by her background and success in the theater, May brought the biting humor of her improv comedy to her filmmaking. But unfriendly media and a system hostile to both her methods and sensibility consigned her to “director’s jail” after the failure of \u003ci\u003eIshtar\u003c\/i\u003e. As Alsop moves through the filmmaker’s four movies, she tracks May’s inventive treatment of favorite themes like hapless male characters and the inanities of American culture. She also considers May’s work in relation to her multifaceted career as a writer and performer. \u003cp\u003e A compelling reconsideration of an iconoclast and original, \u003ci\u003eElaine May\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how a surprisingly radical auteur created her trademark cinema of discomfort. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e An Unsentimental Education: The Films of Elaine May \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA New Leaf\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Heartbreak Kid\u003c\/i\u003e: Unromantic Comedies \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMikey and Nicky\u003c\/i\u003e: Digression and Masculine Dysfunction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIshtar\u003c\/i\u003e: Trolling Hollywood \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Flopping and Feminist Film Historiography \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e An Interview with Elaine May \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Filmography \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739385819416,"sku":"9780252088582","price":14.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/elaine-may-paperback-softback-9780252088582","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}