Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Sabine Planka, Philip van der Merwe, Ian Bekker, Philip Van Der Merwe, Philip van der Merwe

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-11-11
Mått157 x 238 x 27 mm
Vikt585 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
Antal sidor264
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetareRandell,Karen
ISBN9781666912258

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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.