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The complex genius of Mel Brooks

Jeremy Dauber highlights the tension within Brooks of warring Jewish archetypes, personified by Max and Leo in the masterpiece The Producers

Kenneth Mars and Gene Wilder in The Producers. [Bridgeman Images]

  • Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew

    Jeremy Dauber

    Yale, pp. 272, £16

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