And Now for Something Completely Different: Critical Approaches to Monty Python

This book examines Monty Python's enduring status as an unconventional, anti-authoritarian comedy touchstone, exploring its originality, impact, and durability through a range of international scholars' perspectives. It covers Python's influences, production contexts, controversial themes, and cult status, including television sketches, films, and songs.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 31 October 2020
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Monty Python's enduring status as an unconventional, anti-authoritarian comedy touchstone is examined in this book, which reevaluates their comedy output from a 50-year cultural circulation perspective. International scholars explore Python's influences, production contexts, controversial themes, and the cult status and forms of fandom associated with them in the present day. The book covers a wide range of Python's work, including television sketches such as "The Funniest Joke in the World," "Hell's Grannies," "Dead Parrot," and "Confuse-a-Cat," as well as films such as "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," "Life of Brian," and "The Meaning of Life," and songs from their albums and live shows. It is a ground-breaking critical analysis of the Monty Python phenomenon that offers new insights into their originality, impact, and durability.

Weight: 530g
Dimension: 162 x 240 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474475150