Introduction / Ian Bekker, Sabine Planka, and Philip van der Merwe -- Terry Gilliam, 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' and cinephilia / Chris Broodryk -- Ideology through the looking glass: Terry Gilliam's Lewis Carroll and the politics of comedy in 'Jabberwocky' (1977) and 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' (1998) / Garreth O'Brien -- Carnival and the imaging of language in Terry Gilliam's 'Jabberwocky' (1977) and 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' (1975) / Ian Bekker -- Subversion of the cosmos in 'Time Bandits' / David Robinson -- 'I think it has something to do with free will': 'Time Bandits' as Gilliam's theodicy / Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. -- Meet to eat, the restaurant in Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil' and (1985) and 'The Fisher King' (1991) / Sabine Planka -- A bittersweet apocalypse: Averted endings and suspended hope in '12 Monkeys' / Andrew Grossman -- The art of deserts in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' and 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' / Philip van der Merwe -- Between the forest and civilization: Liminal spaces in Terry Gilliam's 'The Brothers Grimm' (2005) / Sabine Planka and Philip van der Merwe -- 'Tideland' and the ossification of the imaginary faculties / Jonathan Fruoco -- Wonderland and the wasteland: The colorfully dirty mise en scene of 'The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus' (2009) / Ivy Roberts -- Black hole: 'The Zero Theorem' and the pointless quest / Michael Charlton -- The zerø and one theorem: A meta/physics of the digital: A meta/physics of the digital / Ulrich Meurer -- Afterword: Gilliam's legacy / Karen Randell.
Summary:
"This edited collection provides a fresh, up-to-date exploration of this Terry Gilliam's oeuvre and artistic practice as a director whose films weave avant-garde cinematic style, imaginative exaggeration, and social critique together"-- Provided by publisher. "A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam provides a fresh, up-to-date exploration of the director's films and artistic practices, ranging from his first film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) to his recently released and latest film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018). This volume presents Gilliam as a director whose films weave together an avant-garde cinematic style, imaginative exaggeration, and social critique. Consequently, while his films can seem artistically chaotic and thus have the effect of frustrating and upsetting the viewer, the essays in this volume show that this is part of a very disciplined creative plan to achieve the defamiliarization of various accepted notions of human and social life." -- Provided by publisher.
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