A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam
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A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam provides a fresh, up-to-date exploration of the director’s films and artistic practices, ranging from his first film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) to his recently released and latest film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018). This volume presents Gilliam as a director whose films weave together an avant-garde cinematic style, imaginative exaggeration, and social critique. Consequently, while his films can seem artistically chaotic and thus have the effect of frustrating and upsetting the viewer, the essays in this volume show that this is part of a very disciplined creative plan to achieve the defamiliarization of various accepted notions of human and social life.
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Table of Contents
Chris Broodryk
2. Ideology Through the Looking Glass: Terry Gilliam's Lewis Carroll and the Politics of Comedy in Jabberwocky and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Garreth O'Brien
3. Carnival and the Imaging of Language in Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky (1977) and Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975)
Ian Bekker
4. Subversion of the Cosmos in Time Bandits
David Robinson
5. “'I Think It Has Something to Do with Free Will': Time Bandits as Gilliam's Theodicy”
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
6. “Meet to Eat. The Restaurant as Narrative Setting in Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) and The Fisher King (1991)”
Sabine Planka
7. “A Bittersweet Apocalypse: Averted Endings and Suspended Hope in 12 Monkeys” Andrew Grossman
8. “The Art of Deserts in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”
Philip van der Merwe
9. “Between the Forest and Civilization: Liminal Spaces in Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm (2005)”
Sabine Planka and Phili
Product details
| Published | 11 Nov 2022 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 264 |
| ISBN | 9781666912265 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Series | Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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