And Now for Something Completely Different : : Critical Approaches to Monty Python /

And Now for Something Completely Different : : Critical Approaches to Monty Python / / Kate Egan, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.

Explores the range of factors that contribute to Monty Python’s continuing status as ‘something different’A reappraisal of the originality, influence and impact of Monty Python’s comedy output, from the perspective of its 50 years of cultural circulationIncludes analyses of a range of Monty Python’s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Egan, Kate,
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew,
MitwirkendeR:
Cassity, Kathleen J.,
Egan, Kate,
Hudson, Rick,
Langhorst, Caroline,
Leggott, James,
Martonfi, Anna,
Mathijs, Ernest,
Mills, Brett,
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew,
Wells, Paul,
Wilson, Ewan,
Wisker, Gina,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • 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

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