Python beyond Python: Critical Engagements with Culture

✍ Scribed by Dr. Paul N. Reinsch, B. Lynn Whitfield, Robert G. Weiner (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 247
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: The Whole of the Parts....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
How Eric Idle Found His Grail: The Journey of Monty Python’s Spamalot from Film to Broadway....Pages 17-36
From Silly to Scholarly: The Complete and Utter History of Terry Jones....Pages 37-53
Python, Heritage, and Michael Palin’s Diaries ....Pages 55-75
Getting There: Michael Palin’s Travels....Pages 77-91
Grotesque Unrealism: Terry Gilliam’s Jabberwocky ....Pages 93-108
From Witness Box to the Bench: Meetings, Bloody Meetings, Video Arts, and the Evolution of John Cleese....Pages 109-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Joining the Circus: The Pythons before Monty Python....Pages 135-151
Playing with the Past: The Complete and Utter History of Britain in the Context of Sixties Television....Pages 153-170
Thrilling Adventures in Post-Colonial Culture: From Empire to Commonwealth in Ripping Yarns and British Popular Culture....Pages 171-182
A Liar’s Autobiography: Animation and the Unreliable Biopic....Pages 183-199
Superman in the Python Universe....Pages 201-218
Starship Titanic and the Perils of Pythonesque Gaming....Pages 219-238
Back Matter....Pages 239-246

✦ Subjects

Film Theory;Performing Arts;Screen Performance;British Cinema;British Culture