Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition : cultural contexts in Monty Python / edited by Tomasz Dobrogoszcz ; foreword by Terry Jones.

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Publication:

Lanham, Maryland ; London, England : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014.

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (170 p.)

Subjects:

Monty Python (Comedy troupe).

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

This short collection of essays looks at the television show and films produced by the Monty Python troupe from a number of perspectives:

• Gender studies
• Post-structuralism
• Psychoanalysis
• Cultural studies

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Part I: Monty Python's Body and Death; 1 "It's a Mr. Death or Something. He Has Come about the Reaping. I Don't Think We Need Any at the Moment"; 2 The Body, Desire, and the Abject; 3 The Representation of the Woman's Body in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life; Part II: Monty Python, the Fool; 4 Monty Python and the Flying Feast of Fools; 5 "How Fortunate We Are Indeed to Have Such a Poet on These Shores"; 6 The Village Idiot and His Relation to the Unconscious; Part III: Monty Python Goes Abroad; 7 The British Look Abroad: Monty Python and the Foreign
8 Twentieth-Century Vole, Mr. Neutron, and Spam9 Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus; Part IV: Pythonian Aesthetics and Beyond; 10 Eric Idle and the Counterculture; 11 Kitsch Britannia in Monty Python's Flying Circus; Index; About the Editor and Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Contributor:

Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz, editor.
Jones, Terry, author of introduction, etc.

ISBN:

1-4422-3737-6

OCLC:

884725738

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