Editors:
- Offers diverse perspectives on Monty Python members pre- and post-Monty Python careers and beyond the group’s television series, films, record albums and live performances
- Includes original interdisciplinary essays addressing a wide range of media and culture production
- Provides fascinating examples of how comedy is both an intrinsic part of culture and a tool that accesses and shapes every aspect of contemporary life
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy (PSCOM)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Solo Work(s)
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Front Matter
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Pre- and Post-Python Collaborations
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“Python Beyond Python ventures into little known facets of Python creativity to indicate, as editor Paul N. Reinsch affirms, that the Pythons are not merely the sum total of their parts but “something else.” Without diminishing the fame and ongoing influence of the canonical Python texts, the authors expand and differentiate the range of contributions each Python makes in cultural forms beyond cinema and TV, including Broadway theatre, training videos, travel, autobiography and history writing.” (Marcia Landy, Distinguished Professor of English/Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Author of Monty Python’s Flying Circus (2005) and Stardom, Italian Style: Screen Performance and Personality in Italian Cinema, 2008)
“In Python Beyond Python we have, finally and at long last, the first steps toward a more careful, more thoughtful, use of “Pythonesque.” It’s a terrific book, really, guaranteed to delight fans of comedy, well-versed in Python or not. By the way, I imagine the other blurbers are also at it, telling you just how swell this book is. They’re right, but, mind you, I’ve actually read a good bit of it.” (Gary Hardcastle, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bloomsburg University , USA. Co-editor of Monty Python and Philosophy (2006) and Bullshit and Philosophy, 2006)
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Theatre and Dance, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA
Paul N. Reinsch
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Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA
B. Lynn Whitfield
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Texas Tech University Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA
Robert G. Weiner
About the editors
Paul N. Reinsch is Assistant Professor of Practice—Cinema at Texas Tech University, USA. He is the author of A Critical Bibliography of Shirley Jackson (2001).Â
B. Lynn Whitfield is Associate Archivist at Texas Tech University, USA. She serves on the Executive Board of the Society of Southwest Archivists and is Associate Director of the West Texas Historical Association.
Robert G. Weiner is Popular Culture and Humanities Librarian at Texas Tech University, USA. He has published numerous books and articles related to popular culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Python beyond Python
Book Subtitle: Critical Engagements with Culture
Editors: Paul N. Reinsch, B. Lynn Whitfield, Robert G. Weiner
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51385-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51384-3Published: 28 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84636-1Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51385-0Published: 14 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-4332
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4340
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 246
Topics: Film Theory, Performing Arts, Screen Performance, British Cinema and TV, British Culture, Comedy Studies