Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Notes on Contributors x
5. Introduction. Fear and Loathing in Hollywood: Looking at Terry Gilliam through a Wide-angle Lens 1
6. Terry Gilliam Interview 9
7. 1. Steampunked: The Animated Aesthetics of Terry Gilliam in Jabberwocky and Beyond 16
8. 2. Grail Tales: The Preoccupations of Terry Gilliam 32
9. 3. ‘And Now for Something Completely Different’: Pythonic Arthuriana and the Matter of Britain 42
10. 4. The Baron, the King and Terry Gilliam’s Approach to ‘the Fantastic 54
11. 5. The Subversion of Happy Endings in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil 66
12. 6. The Fissure King: Terry Gilliam’s Psychotic Fantasy Worlds 79
13. 7. ‘You can’t change anything’: Freedom and Control in Twelve Monkeys 92
14. 8. ‘It shall be a nation’: Terry Gilliam’s Exploration of National Identity, Between Rationalism and Imagination 104
15. 9. ‘Won’t somebody please think of the children?’: The Case for Terry Gilliam’s Tidelands 118
16. 10. Divorced from Reality: Time Bandits in Search of Fulfilment 130
17. 11. Celebrity Trauma: The Death of Heath Ledger and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 145
18. Filmography 158
19. Bibliography 163
20. Index 173