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Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition

Cultural Contexts in Monty Python

von: Tomasz Dobrogoszcz, Terry Jones
64,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	16.07.2014
ISBN/EAN:	9781442237377
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	168

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Titelbeschreibung

Monty Python’s Flying Circus was one of the most important and influential cultural phenomena of the 1970s. The British program was followed by albums, stage appearances, and several films, including Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. In all, the comic troupe drew on a variety of cultural references that prominently figured in their sketches, and they tackled weighty matters that nonetheless amused their audiences. In Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition:Cultural Contexts in Monty Python, Tomasz Dobrogoszcz presents essays that explore the various touchstones in the television show and subsequent films. These essays look at a variety of themes prompted by the comic geniuses: 
 
<ul>
<li>Death </li>
<li>The depiction of women</li>
<li>Shakespearean influences </li>
<li>British and American cultural representations</li>
<li>Reactions from foreign viewers </li>
</ul>
 This volume offers a distinguished discussion of Monty Python’s oeuvre, exhibiting highly varied approaches from a number of perspectives, including gender studies, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. Featuring a foreword by Python alum Terry Jones, Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition will appeal to anyone interested in cultural history and media studies, as well as the general fans of Monty Python who want to know more about the impact of this groundbreaking group.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This short collection of essays looks at the television show and films produced by the Monty Python troupe from a number of perspectives:
 
<ul>
<li>Gender studies </li>
<li>Post-structuralism </li>
<li>Psychoanalysis </li>
<li>Cultural studies</li>
</ul>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
 
Bibliographical Information
 
Foreword Terry Jones 
 
Part One: 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”: Death and the Denial of Death in the Works of Monty Python
 
Katarzyna Małecka
 
2. The Body, Desire and the Abject: The Corpse and Cannibalism in Monty Python’s Flying Circus Sketches
 
Edyta Lorek-Jezińska
 
3. The Representation of Women in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
 
Katarzyna Poloczek
 
Part Two: Monty Python, The Fool
 
4. Monty Python and the Flying Feast of Fools
 
Stephen Butler and Wojciech Klepuszewski 
 
5. “How fortunate we are indeed to have such a poet on these shores”: Shakespeare, Monty Python and the Tradition of the Wise Fool
 
Miguel Ángel González Campos 
 
6. The Village Idiot and His Relation to the Unconscious
 
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz 
 
Part Three: Monty Python Goes Abroad
 
7. The British Look Abroad: Monty Python and the Foreign
 
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz 
 
8. 20th Century Vole, Mr. Neutron, and Spam: Portrayals of American Culture in the Work of Monty Python
 
Kevin F. Kern
 
9. Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus: the Unique German Show 
 
Adam Sumera 
 
Part Four: Pythonian Aesthetics and Beyond
 
10. Eric Idle and the Counterculture
 
Richard Mills 
 
11. Kitsch Britannia in Monty Python’s Flying Circus 
 
Justyna Stępień
 
List of Contributors 
 
Index 
 
About the Contributors
 
About the Editor

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This short collection of essays looks at the television show and films produced by the Monty Python troupe from a number of perspectives, including gender studies, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies.