And Now for Something Completely Different

Critical Approaches to Monty Python
Herausgeber: Egan, Kate; Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining 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. Reconsidering the group's originality, impact and durability, a range of international scholars explores Python's influences, production contexts, frequently controversial themes, and the cult status and forms of fandom associated with Python in the present day. From television sketches, including The Funniest Joke in the World, Hell's Grannies, Dead Parrot and Confuse-a-Cat, to the films Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life, to songs from the albums and live shows, this book is a ground-breaking critical analysis of the Monty Python phenomenon. Kate Egan is a senior lecturer in film and media at Northumbria University, UK Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is professor of English at Central Michigan University, USA

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781474475150
• ISBN-10: 1474475159
• Artikelnr.: 59513788

Autorenporträt

Dr Kate Egan is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at Northumbria University Professor Jeffrey Weinstock is Professor of English at Central Michigan University

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 'It's... The Introduction'
Kate Egan and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock; PART I: SITUATING PYTHON; 1: 'Six Comics in Search of a ...: Monty Python and Absurdist/Surrealist Theatre'
Rick Hudson; 2: '"'None shall pass" and "The skull beneath the skin": Monty Python
the British Class System
and Death'
Gina Wisker; 3: 'Der Ver Zwei Peanuts: Depictions of a Distant War in Monty Python's Flying Circus'
Anna Martonfi; PART II: PYTHON'S PRACTICES
FORMS AND MEDIUMS; 4: 'The Royal Philharmonic Goes to the Bathroom: The Music of Monty Python'
James Leggott; 5: Paul Wells
'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'
Ewan Wilson; PART III: 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'
Caroline Langhorst; 8: 'The Parrot
the Albatross
and the Cat: Animals and Comedy in Monty Python'
Brett Mills; 9: '"Political Correctness"
Reversal
and Incongruity: Dynamics of Humour in Life of Brian'
Kathleen J. Cassity; PART IV: CULT
FANDOM AND PYTHON; 10: 'Philosophy
Absurdity
Waste and The Meaning of Life - A Cult Film
Of Sorts'
Ernest Mathijs; 11: 'In Praise of Silliness: The Cult of Python'
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock; 12: 'Memories of Connecting: Fathers
Daughters and Intergenerational Monty Python Fandom'
Kate Egan