Monty Python's Flying Circus
1st Edition
Published on 29. March 2005
130 pages
978-0-8143-3651-9 (ISBN)
Description
A comprehensive study examining the history, content, and context of the legendary comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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Marcia Landy
Monty Python's Flying Circus
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02/2005
Wayne State University Press
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Content
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- The Flying Circus and the Wide World of Entertainment
- The Pythons
- The Flying Circus in a Changing British Culture
- The British Broadcasting Corporation
- The Pythons and American Television
- Antecedents and Influences
- Situating Comedy
- Television Time
- Television Forms and Genres
- Animals, Insects, Machines, and Human Bodies
- Cross-Dressing and Gender Bending
- Hyperbole, Excess, and Escalation
- Recycling Literature, Drama, Cinema, and Art
- Language, Words, Sense, and Nonsense
- Common Sense and Audience Response
- The Flying Circus Revisited
- NOTES
- VIDEOGRAPHY AND FILMOGRAPHY
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
