Dark Knights And Holy Fools

Download Dark Knights And Holy Fools full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Dark Knights And Holy Fools ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Dark Knights and Holy Fools

Author : Bob McCabe
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dark Knights and Holy Fools by : Bob McCabe

Download or read book Dark Knights and Holy Fools written by Bob McCabe and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning film director, animator, and actor Terry Gilliam has been one of the most original, controversial, and successful filmmakers of the last three decades. Since 1969, when he became the only American among the otherwise all-British Monty Python team, Gilliam's work has won acclaim for its originality and imagination. For the first time, this book traces thirty years of his work and art, from his pre-Python days through the adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, released in 1998. Using Gilliam's own drawings, storyboard and scripts, this book builds an overview of the director's work, examining in detail his striking visual sense and labyrinthine stories of man against bureaucracy (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys), triumphant tales of imagination winning over mediocrity (Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King) and, of course, something completely different (Monty Python and the Holy Grail).--From publisher description.

Dark Knights And Holy Fools

Author : Bob McCabe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756790806
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dark Knights And Holy Fools by : Bob McCabe

Download or read book Dark Knights And Holy Fools written by Bob McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film director, animator, and actor Gilliam has been one of the most original and successful filmmakers of the last 3 decades. Since 1969, when he became the only American among the 3Monty Python2 team, Gilliam1s work has won acclaim for its originality and imagination. His films are renowned for performances from top actors: Robert de Niro, Brad Pitt, Robin Williams and Johnny Depp. This book traces 30 years of his work and art, from his pre-Python days through 1998. Examines labyrinthine stories of Man against bureaucracy (3Brazil,2 3Twelve Monkeys2); tales of imagination winning over mediocrity (3Time Bandits,2 3The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,2 3The Fisher King2); &, of course 3Monty Python and the Holy Grail2. 1001s of color and B&W illustrations.

Terry Gilliam

Author : Peter Marks
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152612551X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Terry Gilliam by : Peter Marks

Download or read book Terry Gilliam written by Peter Marks and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Apocalyptic Transformation

Author : Elizabeth K. Rosen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739117910
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (179 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Apocalyptic Transformation by : Elizabeth K. Rosen

Download or read book Apocalyptic Transformation written by Elizabeth K. Rosen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apocalyptic Transformation explores how one the oldest sense-making paradigms, the apocalyptic myth, is altered when postmodern authors and filmmakers adopt it. It examines how postmodern writers adapt a fundamentally religious story for a secular audience and it proposes that even as these writers use the myth in traditional ways, they simultaneously undermine and criticize the grand narrative of apocalypse itself.

A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle

Author : Carol Dover
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859917834
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (178 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle by : Carol Dover

Download or read book A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle written by Carol Dover and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings together the stories of Arthur with those of the Grail, a conjunction of materials that continues to fascinate the Western imagination today. Representing what is probably the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction in the West, it also exemplifies the taste for big cyclic compositions that shaped much of European narrative fiction for three centuries. A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the first comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle and its medieval legacy. The twenty essays in this volume, all by internationally known scholars, locate the work in its social, historical, literary, and manuscript contexts. In addition to addressing critical issues in the five texts that make up the Cycle, the contributors convey to modern readers the appeal that the text must have had for its medieval audiences, and the richness of composition that made it compelling. This volume will become standard reading for scholars, students, and more general readers interested in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, medieval romance, Malory studies, and the Arthurian legends. Contributors: RICHARD BARBER, EMMANUELE BAUMGARTNER, FANNI BOGDANOW, FRANK BRANDSMA, MATILDA T. BRUCKNER, CAROL J. CHASE, ANNIE COMBES, HELEN COOPER, CAROL R. DOVER, MICHAEL HARNEY, DONALD L. HOFFMAN, DOUGLAS KELLY, ELSPETH KENNEDY, NORRIS J. LACY, ROGER MIDDLETON, HAQUIRA OSAKABE, HANS-HUGO STEINHOFF, ALISON STONES, RICHARD TRACHSLER. CAROL DOVER is associate professor of French and director of undergraduate studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC.

Hope and the Longing for Utopia

Author : Daniel Boscaljon
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227903900
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Hope and the Longing for Utopia by : Daniel Boscaljon

Download or read book Hope and the Longing for Utopia written by Daniel Boscaljon and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At present the battle over who defines our future is being waged most publicly by secular and religious fundamentalists. 'Hope and the Longing for Utopia' offers an alternative position, disclosing a conceptual path toward potential worlds that resist a limited view of human potential and the gift of religion. In addition to outlining the value of embracing unknown potentialities, these twelve interdisciplinary essays explore why it has become crucial that we commit to hoping for values that resist traditional ideological commitments. Contextualized by contemporary writing on utopia, and drawing from a wealth of times and cultures ranging from Calvin's Geneva to early twentieth-century Japanese children's stories to Hollywood cinema, theseessays cumulatively disclose the fundamental importance of resisting tantalizing certainties while considering the importance of the unknown and unknowable. Beginning with a set of four essays outlining the importance of hope and utopia as diagnostic concepts, and following with four concrete examples, the collection ends with a set of essays that provide theological speculations on the need to embrace finitude and limitations in a world increasingly enframed by secularizing impulses. Overall, this book discloses how hope and utopia illuminate ways to think past simplified wishes for the future.

Remaking the Middle Ages

Author : Andrew B.R. Elliott
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786461764
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Remaking the Middle Ages by : Andrew B.R. Elliott

Download or read book Remaking the Middle Ages written by Andrew B.R. Elliott and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposing a fresh theoretical approach to the study of cinematic portrayals of the Middle Ages, this book uses both semiotics and historiography to demonstrate how contemporary filmmakers have attempted to recreate the past in a way that, while largely imagined, is also logical, meaningful, and as truthful as possible. Carrying out this critical approach, the author analyzes a wide range of films depicting the Middle Ages, arguing that most of these films either reflect the past through a series of visual signs (a concept he has called "iconic recreation") or by comparing the past to a modern equivalent (called "paradigmatic representation").

Hollywood Knights

Author : S. Aronstein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137124008
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Hollywood Knights by : S. Aronstein

Download or read book Hollywood Knights written by S. Aronstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood Knights examines Hollywood Arthuriana as political nostalgia offered to American viewers during times of cultural crisis: the red scare of the 1950s, the breakdown of traditional authority in the 1960s and 1970s, the turn to the right in the 1980s and the redemption of masculine and national authority in the 1990s. Its analysis of these films explores their proposal of an ideal past - an Americanized Camelot and a democratized chivalry - as the solution to the problems of a troubled present, a solution that will ensure prosperity in the homeland and a globally beneficial American authority abroad.

And Now for Something Completely Different

Author : Egan Kate Egan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474475183
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis And Now for Something Completely Different by : Egan Kate Egan

Download or read book And Now for Something Completely Different written by Egan Kate Egan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining Monty Python's enduring status as an unconventional, anti-authoritarian comedy touchstone, this book reappraises Python's comedy output from the perspective of its 50 years of cultural circulation. Reconsidering the group's originality, impact and durability, a range of international scholars explores Python's influences, production contexts, frequently controversial themes, and the cult status and forms of fandom associated with Python in the present day. From television sketches, including The Funniest Joke in the World, Hell's Grannies, Dead Parrot and Confuse-a-Cat, to the films Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life, to songs from the albums and live shows, this book is a ground-breaking critical analysis of the Monty Python phenomenon.

Postmodern Medievalisms

Author : Richard J. Utz
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843840121
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Postmodern Medievalisms by : Richard J. Utz

Download or read book Postmodern Medievalisms written by Richard J. Utz and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of texts from the late middle ages to the contemporary moment, together they indicate, broadly, directions both in postmodern studies and studies in medievalism.

Masters of the Grotesque

Author : Schuy R. Weishaar
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476600600
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Masters of the Grotesque by : Schuy R. Weishaar

Download or read book Masters of the Grotesque written by Schuy R. Weishaar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts and theories surrounding the aesthetic category of the grotesque are explored in this book by pursuing their employment in the films of American auteurs Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Coen Brothers and David Lynch. The author argues that interpreting these directors' films through the lens of the grotesque allows us1to situate both the auteurs and the films within a long history of the grotesque in art and aesthetics. This cultural tradition effectively subsumes the contribution of any artist or1genre that intersects it but also affords the artist or genre--the auteur and the genre filmmaker--a pantheon and an abundance of images, themes, and motifs through which he1or she can subversively represent the world and our place in it.

Monty Python

Author : Douglas McCall
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476613117
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Monty Python by : Douglas McCall

Download or read book Monty Python written by Douglas McCall and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological listing of the creative output and other antics of the members of the British comedy group Monty Python, both as a group and individually. Coverage spans between 1969 (the year Monty Python's Flying Circus debuted) and 2012. Entries include television programs, films, stage shows, books, records and interviews. Back matter features an appendix of John Cleese's hilarious business-training films; an index of Monty Python's sketches and songs; an index of Eric Idle's sketches and songs; as well as a general index and selected bibliography.

Cinema Arthuriana

Author : Kevin J. Harty
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147660844X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cinema Arthuriana by : Kevin J. Harty

Download or read book Cinema Arthuriana written by Kevin J. Harty and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legends of King Arthur have not only endured for centuries, but also flourished in constant retellings and new stories built around the central themes. With the coming of motion pictures, Arthur was destined to hit the screen. This edition of Cinema Arthuriana, revised in 2002, presents 20 essays on the topic of the recurring presence of the legend in film and television from 1904 to 2001. They cover such films as Excalibur (1981) and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), television productions such as The Mists of Avalon (2001), and French and German films about the quest for the Holy Grail and the other adventures of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

Perceval/Parzival

Author : Arthur Groos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136510001
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Perceval/Parzival by : Arthur Groos

Download or read book Perceval/Parzival written by Arthur Groos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Arthurian Characters and Themes series treats the fascinating character of Perceval, the naive and flawed but gifted youth who becomes the Grail hero in some texts and yet is eclipsed in others by Galahad. Also includes eight musical examples.

A Book about the Film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Author : Darl Larsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538115972
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Book about the Film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life by : Darl Larsen

Download or read book A Book about the Film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life written by Darl Larsen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference identifies and explains the cultural, historical, and topical allusions in the filmMonty Python’s Meaning of Life, the Pythons’ third and final original feature as a complete group. In this resource, virtually every allusion and reference that appears in the film is identified and explained —from Britain’s waning Empire through the Winter of Discontent to Margaret Thatcher’s second-term mandate, from playing fields to battle fields, and from accountant pirates to sacred sperm. Organized chronologically by scene, the entries cover literary and metaphoric allusions, symbolisms, names, peoples, and places; as well as the many social, cultural, and historical elements that populate this film, and the Pythons’ work in general.

The Cinema of Terry Gilliam

Author : Jeff Birkenstein
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850387
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Cinema of Terry Gilliam by : Jeff Birkenstein

Download or read book The Cinema of Terry Gilliam written by Jeff Birkenstein and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Gilliam has been making movies for more than forty years, and this volume analyzes a selection of his thrilling directorial work, from his early films with Monty Python to The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnussus (2009). The frenetic genius, auteur, and social critic continues to create indelible images on screen--if, that is, he can get funding for his next project. Featuring eleven original essays from an international group of scholars, this collection argues that when Gilliam makes a movie, he goes to war: against Hollywood caution and convention, against American hyper-consumerism and imperial militarism, against narrative vapidity and spoon-fed mediocrity, and against the brutalizing notion and cruel vision of the "American Dream."

British Film Directors

Author : Robert Shail
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629688
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis British Film Directors by : Robert Shail

Download or read book British Film Directors written by Robert Shail and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British national cinema has produced an exceptional track record of innovative, creative and internationally recognised filmmakers, amongst them Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and David Lean. This tradition continues today with the work of directors as diverse as Neil Jordan, Stephen Frears, Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. This concise, authoritative volume analyses critically the work of 100 British directors, from the innovators of the silent period to contemporary auteurs. An introduction places the individual entries in context and examines the role and status of the director within British film production. Balancing academic rigour with accessibility, British Film Directors provides an indispensable reference source for film students at all levels, as well as for the general cinema enthusiast.Key features include:* A complete list of each director's British feature films.* Suggested further reading on each filmmaker.* A comprehensive career overview, including biographical information and an assessment of the director's current critical standing. * 10 B&W illustrations.