Python beyond python : critical engagements with culture /: critical engagements with culture. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Paul N. Reinsch, B. Lynn Whitfield, Robert G. Weiner, editors.
• Editors: Reinsch, Paul N; Whitfield, B. Lynn; Weiner, Robert G, 1966-
• Contents: Python beyond Python; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction: The Whole of the Parts; Notes; Bibliography; Part I Solo Work(s); How Eric Idle Found His Grail: The Journey of Monty Python's Spamalot from Film to Broadway; A Horse, a Spoon, and a Bucket; Camelot: A Very Silly Place; Idle Finds His Grail; Notes; Bibliography; From Silly to Scholarly: The Complete and Utter History of Terry Jones; Notes; Bibliography; Python, Heritage, and Michael Palin's Diaries; Recent Histories of "Heritage"; Palin and the Politics of the Everyday; Palin as Critic of Celebrity; Public Patron; Conclusion NotesBibliography; Getting There: Michael Palin's Travels; Notes; Bibliography; Grotesque Unrealism: Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky; Notes; Bibliography; From Witness Box to the Bench: Meetings, Bloody Meetings, Video Arts, and the Evolution of John Cleese; Monetizing Humor: Video Arts; Cleese in Need of Instruction: 1976; Cleese Is Still Learning: 1993; Cleese as the Authority: 2012; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Part II Pre- and Post-Python Collaborations; Joining the Circus: The Pythons before Monty Python; The Frost Report and That Was the Week That Was; At Last the 1948 Show Do Not Adjust Your SetThe Complete and Utter History of Britain; Conclusion: Off to Join the Circus; Notes; Bibliography; Playing with the Past: The Complete and Utter History of Britain in the Context of Sixties Television; From History to Television; BBC and ITV; The Complete and Utter History of Britain and the Field of Historical Television; Genres and Styles A-Go-Go; Towards Python; Beyond Python; Notes; Bibliography; Thrilling Adventures in Post-Colonial Culture: From Empire to Commonwealth in Ripping Yarns and British Popular Culture; Notes; Bibliography A Liar's Autobiography: Animation and the Unreliable BiopicNotes; Bibliography; Superman in the Python Universe; Comic Universe Context; Superman Growing Up British; True Brit as Modern Social Commentary; Reviews and Criticism; Notes; Bibliography; Starship Titanic and the Perils of Pythonesque Gaming; Douglas Adams, Interactive Fiction, and Absurdism; Starship Titanic; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.917; Comedy -- Social aspects; LITERARY CRITICISM / Humor; Comedy -- Social aspects; Performing Arts -- General; Performing Arts -- Acting & Auditioning; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General; Social Science -- General; Dance & other performing arts; Films, cinema; Cultural studies; Motion pictures; Performing arts; Motion picture acting; Film theory & criticism; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319513850; 3319513850
• Related ISBNs: 9783319513843
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 14, 2017).; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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