And Now for Something Completely Different

Critical Approaches to Monty Python

Kate Egan, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-7515-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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 50 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.

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

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Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

Kate Egan and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, ‘It’s… The Introduction’

PART I: SITUATING PYTHON

1. Rick Hudson, ‘Six Comics in Search of a …: Monty Python and Absurdist/Surrealist

Theatre’

2. Gina Wisker, ‘"‘None shall pass" and "The skull beneath the skin": Monty Python, the British Class System, and Death’

3. Anna Martonfi, ‘Der Ver Zwei Peanuts: Depictions of a Distant War in Monty Python’s Flying Circus’

PART II: PYTHON’S PRACTICES, FORMS AND MEDIUMS

4. James Leggott, ‘The Royal Philharmonic Goes to the Bathroom: The Music of Monty Python’

5. Paul Wells, ‘The Disruptive Metamorphoses of an Impish God: Gilliam's Satiric Animation’

6. Ewan Wilson, ‘Figures Traced in Shite: The Scribe, The Illuminator, and Monty Python’s Holy Grail’

PART III: CONTEXTS AND REPRESENTATIONS

7. Caroline Langhorst, ‘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. Brett Mills, ‘The Parrot, the Albatross, and the Cat: Animals and Comedy in Monty

Python’

9. Kathleen J. Cassity, ‘"Political Correctness", Reversal, and Incongruity: Dynamics of Humour in Life of Brian’

PART IV: CULT, FANDOM AND PYTHON

10. Ernest Mathijs, ‘Philosophy, Absurdity, Waste and The Meaning of Life – A Cult Film, Of Sorts’

11. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, ‘In Praise of Silliness: The Cult of Python’

12. Kate Egan, ‘Memories of Connecting: Fathers, Daughters and Intergenerational Monty Python Fandom’

Erscheinungsdatum	12.10.2020
Zusatzinfo	10 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	526 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-7515-9 / 1474475159
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-7515-0 / 9781474475150
Zustand	Neuware