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