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And now for something completely different critical approaches to Monty Python /
The book examines Monty Python's enduring status as an unconventional, anti-authoritarian comedy touchstone, this book reappraises Python's comedy output from the perspective of its fifty years of cultural circulation.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- 'It's . . . The Introduction'
- PART ONE SITUATING PYTHON
- 1. Six Comics in Search of a . . . : Monty Python and Absurdist/Surrealist Theatre
- 2. 'None shall pass' and 'The skull beneath the skin': Monty Python, the British Class System and Death
- 3. Der Ver Zwei Peanuts: Depictions of a Distant War in Monty Python's Flying Circus
- PART TWO PYTHON'S PRACTICES, FORMS AND MEDIUMS
- 4. The Royal Philharmonic Goes to the Bathroom: The Music of Monty Python
- 5. The Disruptive Metamorphoses of an Impish God: Gilliam's Satiric Animation
- 6. Figures Traced in Shite: The Scribe, The Illuminator and Monty Python's Holy Grail
- PART THREE CONTEXTS AND REPRESENTATIONS
- 7. Grannies from Hell, Daring Bicycle Repairmen, Upper-Class Twits and 'Make Tea Not Love': Monty Python's Flying Circus and 1960s British (Popular) Culture
- 8. The Parrot, the Albatross and the Cat: Animals and Comedy in Monty Python
- 9. 'Political Correctness', Reversal and Incongruity: Dynamics of Humour in Life of Brian
- PART FOUR CULT, FANDOM AND PYTHON
- 10. Philosophy, Absurdity, Waste and The Meaning of Life: A Cult Film, of Sorts
- 11. In Praise of Silliness: The Cult of Python
- 12. Memories of Connecting: Fathers, Daughters and Intergenerational Monty Python Fandom
- Index