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."
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Fear and Loathing in Hollywood: Looking at Terry GIlliam through a Wide-angle Lens
- Terry Gilliam Interview with Karen Randell - 3 May 2012
- 1. Steampunked: The Animated Aesthetics of Terry Gilliam in Jabberwocky and Beyond
- 2. Grail Tales: The Preoccupations of Terry Gilliam
- 3. 'And Now for Something Completely Different': Pythonic Arthuriana and the Matter of Britain
- 4. The Baron, the King and Terry Gilliam's Approach to 'the Fantastic'
- 5. The Subversion of Happy Endings in Terry Gilliam's Brazil
- 6. The Fissure King: Terry Gilliam's Psychotic Fantasy Worlds
- 7. 'You can't change anything': Freedom and Control in Twelve Monkeys
- 8. 'It shall be a nation': Terry Gilliam's Exploration of National Identity, Between Rationalism and Imagination
- 9. 'Won't somebody please think of the children?' The Case for Terry Gilliam's Tideland
- 10. DIvorced from Reality: Time Bandits in Search of Fulfilment
- 11. Celebrity Trauma: The Death of Heath Ledger and the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Filmography
- Bibliography
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