Elizabeth Alsop is assistant professor of communication and media at the CUNY School of Professional Studies and a faculty member in Film and Media Cultures at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction.

• Acknowledgments An Unsentimental Education: The Films of Elaine May A New Leaf and The Heartbreak Kid: Unromantic Comedies Mikey and Nicky: Digression and Masculine Dysfunction Ishtar: Trolling Hollywood Flopping and Feminist Film Historiography An Interview with Elaine May Filmography Bibliography Index

“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 Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema