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A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam provides a fresh, up-to-date exploration of the director’s films and artistic practices, ranging from his first film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) up until his recently released and latest film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018). This volume presents Gilliam as a director whose films weave an avant-garde cinematic style, imaginative exaggeration, and social critique together. Consequently, while his films can seem artistically chaotic and can, thus, have the effect of frustrating and upsetting the viewer, the essays in this volume show that this is part of a very disciplined creative plan to achieve the defamiliarization of various accepted notions of human and social life.

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Terry Gilliam has stood the test of time, and he's still making art! It has been a decade since the last comprehensive review of his work and the time is right for another in-depth look at one of cinema's most curious minds. Gilliam's films from the Hollywood borderlands, both old and new, continue to animate and intrigue us in new and exciting ways. A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam is a must-read and a must-think-about collection for anyone interested in Gilliam and his many worlds, worlds which overlap with our own.--Jeff Birkenstein, Saint Martin's University and co-editor of The Cinema of Terry Gilliam: It's a Mad World A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam offers an excellent tribute to the quixotic filmmaker and an expansive collection of fresh approaches to his work. These essays reveal new insights about his genre-skewering films and the intriguing ways of thinking that they inspire. This lively volume engages Gilliam's playfully apocalyptic visions on technology and society and what they have to say about our current moment as well as the systems that define our existence. This book will appeal to scholars, students, and fans alike.--Anna Froula, East Carolina University

A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam offers an excellent tribute to the quixotic filmmaker and an expansive collection of fresh approaches to his work. These essays reveal new insights about his genre-skewering films and the intriguing ways of thinking that they inspire. This lively volume engages Gilliam's playfully apocalyptic visions on technology and society and what they have to say about our current moment as well as the systems that define our existence. This book will appeal to scholars, students, and fans alike.--Anna Froula, East Carolina University Terry Gilliam has stood the test of time, and he's still making art! It's been a decade since the last comprehensive review of his work and the time is right for another in-depth look at one of cinema's most curious minds. Gilliam's films from the Hollywood borderlands, both old and new, continue to animate and intrigue us in new and exciting ways. A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam is a must-read and a must-think-about collection for anyone interested in Gilliam and his many worlds, worlds which overlap with our own.--Jeff Birkenstein, Saint Martin's University and co-editor of The Cinema of Terry Gilliam: It's a Mad World

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Sabine Planka is librarian for the humanities at the University Library of FernUniversität Hagen and visiting lecturer in the field of children’s literature at various universities such as Bielefeld University and Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Ian Bekker is professor in the English Department at North-West University. Philip van der Merwe is senior lecturer in the School of Languages at North-West University.

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