TY  - BOOK
AU  - Egan,Kate
AU  - Weinstock,Jeffrey Andrew
TI  - And now for something completely different: critical approaches to Monty Python 
SN  - 9781474475174
AV  - PN2599 .A536 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Monty Python (Comedy troupe)
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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