The big screen comedies of Mel Brooks

"This book is devoted to Mel Brooks' work as a writer and director, providing a synopsis and a thematic analysis for each of his twelve key films: The Producers (1968), The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World - Part I (1981), director Alan Johnson's To Be or Not to Be (1983), Spaceballs (1987), Life Stinks (1991), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995).

Complete cast and production credits are provided."--BOOK JACKET.