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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791013903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2014

ISBN

1-4422-3737-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Disciplina

791.45/028/0922

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This short collection of essays looks at the television show and films produced by the Monty Python troupe from a number of perspectives:</span></span><br /><ul start=""1"" style=""margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;""><li><span>Gender studies </span></li><li><span>Post-structuralism </span></li><li><span>Psychoanalysis </span></li><li><span>Cultural studies</span></li></ul><span><span> </span></span>