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

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Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781474475174

Subject(s):

Monty Python (Comedy troupe)

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PN2599 .A536 2020

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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

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

11. In Praise of Silliness: The Cult of Python -- 12. Memories of Connecting: Fathers, Daughters and Intergenerational Monty Python Fandom -- Index

Subject: 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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PN2599.5.54 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1227086436

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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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