Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam

Sabine Planka is subject librarian for the humanities at the university library of FernUniversität Hagen (Germany) and visiting lecturer of children’s literature at several universities.Ian Bekker is professor in the English Department at North-West University (South Africa).Philip van der Merwe is senior lecturer in the School of Languages at North-West University (South Africa).

• 1.Terry Gilliam, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote and Cinephilia Chris Broodryk2.Ideology Through the Looking Glass: Terry Gilliam’s Lewis Carroll and the Politics of Comedy in Jabberwocky and Fear and Loathing in Las VegasGarreth O’Brien3.Carnival and the Imaging of Language in Terry Gilliam’s Jabberwocky (1977) and Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975)Ian Bekker4.Subversion of the Cosmos in Time BanditsDavid Robinson5.“‘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 Planka7.“A Bittersweet Apocalypse: Averted Endings and Suspended Hope in 12 Monkeys” Andrew Grossman8.“The Art of Deserts in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”Philip van der Merwe9.“Between the Forest and Civilization: Liminal Spaces in Terry Gilliam’s The Brothers Grimm (2005)” Sabine Planka and Phili

Terry Gilliam has stood the test of time, and he’s still making art! It has been a decade since the last comprehensive review of his work and the time is right for another in-depth look at one of cinema’s most curious minds. Gilliam’s films from the Hollywood borderlands, both old and new, continue to animate and intrigue us in new and exciting ways. A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam is a must-read and a must-think-about collection for anyone interested in Gilliam and his many worlds, worlds which overlap with our own.