And now for something completely different : critical approaches to Monty Python / edited by Kate Egan and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Egan, Kate, editor.

Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monty Python (Comedy troupe).

Physical Description:

xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE 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

pt. TWO PYTHON'S PRACTICES, FORMS AND MEDIUMS

4. The Royal Philharmonic Goes To The Bathroom: The Music Of Monty Python / James Leggott

5. The Disruptive Metamorphoses Of An Impish God: Gilliam's Satiric Animation / Paul Wells

6. Figures Traced In Shite: The Scribe, The Illuminator And Monty Python's Holy Grail / Ewan Wilson

pt. 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 / 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

pt. FOUR 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1474475159

9781474475150

OCLC:

1136959939