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This book is the most sustained and comprehensive examination to date of one of cinema’s most challenging and lauded auteur. It proposes new ways of seeing Gilliam and his films that go beyond reductive readings of him as a gifted but manic fantasist. It analyses Gilliam’s work over nearly four decades, from Monty Python, to Brazil and Tideland.

Table of Contents

List of plates
Series editors’ foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Something completely different
3. Monsters and gods
4. Time and meaning
5. Dreams, fantasies and nightmares
6. Pasts, presents and futures in America
7. Transatlantic Gonzo
8. Fairy tales, nightmares and fantasies
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

Terry Gilliam British FilmMakers

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/08/2009
      ISBN13: 9780719070327, 978-0719070327
      ISBN10: 719070325

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book is the most sustained and comprehensive examination to date of one of cinema’s most challenging and lauded auteur. It proposes new ways of seeing Gilliam and his films that go beyond reductive readings of him as a gifted but manic fantasist. It analyses Gilliam’s work over nearly four decades, from Monty Python, to Brazil and Tideland.

      Table of Contents

      List of plates
      Series editors’ foreword
      Acknowledgements
      1. Introduction
      2. Something completely different
      3. Monsters and gods
      4. Time and meaning
      5. Dreams, fantasies and nightmares
      6. Pasts, presents and futures in America
      7. Transatlantic Gonzo
      8. Fairy tales, nightmares and fantasies
      Filmography
      Bibliography
      Index

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