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Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition
Cultural Contexts in Monty Python
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2014
Summary
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:
Death
The depiction of women
Shakespearean influences
British and American cultural representations
Reactions from foreign viewers
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.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-3736-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-3737-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
154
Product type
Edited Book
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Acknowledgments No access
Foreword No access
1 “It’s a Mr. Death or Something. He Has Come about the Reaping. I Don’t Think We Need Any at the Moment” No access
2 The Body, Desire, and the Abject No access
3 The Representation of the Woman’s Body in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life No access
4 Monty Python and the Flying Feast of Fools No access
5 “How Fortunate We Are Indeed to Have Such a Poet on These Shores” No access
6 The Village Idiot and His Relation to the Unconscious No access
7 The British Look Abroad: Monty Python and the Foreign No access
8 Twentieth-Century Vole, Mr. Neutron, and Spam No access
9 Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus No access
10 Eric Idle and the Counterculture No access
11 Kitsch Britannia in Monty Python’s Flying Circus No access
Index No access Pages 147 - 150
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 151 - 154
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