Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition
Cultural Contexts in Monty Python
Published on 16. July 2014
Book
Hardback
168 pages
978-1-4422-3736-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 womenShakespearean influences British and American cultural representationsReactions 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.
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 womenShakespearean influences British and American cultural representationsReactions 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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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 Table
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
406 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4422-3736-0 (9781442237360)
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Persons
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz is assistant professor in the department of British literature and culture at the University of Lodz in Poland.
Content
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 Malecka
2. The Body, Desire and the Abject: The Corpse and Cannibalism in Monty Python's Flying Circus Sketches
Edyta Lorek-Jezinska
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 Angel Gonzalez 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 Stepien
List of Contributors
Index
About the Contributors
About the Editor
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 Malecka
2. The Body, Desire and the Abject: The Corpse and Cannibalism in Monty Python's Flying Circus Sketches
Edyta Lorek-Jezinska
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 Angel Gonzalez 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 Stepien
List of Contributors
Index
About the Contributors
About the Editor