Python beyond Python

1. Introduction: The Whole of the Parts
Paul N. Reinsch

Part I. Solo Work(s)

2. How Eric Idle Found His Grail: The Journey of Monty Python’s Spamalot from Film to Broadway
Rebecca Wright

3. From Silly to Scholarly: The Complete and Utter History of Terry Jones
Kevin F. Kern

4. Python, Heritage, and Michael Palin’s Diaries

Peter Clandfield

5. Getting There: Michael Palin’s Travels
Thomas Prasch

6. Grotesque Unrealism: Terry Gilliam’s Jabberwocky

Rick Hudson

7. From Witness Box to the Bench: Meetings, Bloody Meetings, Video Arts, and the Evolution of John Cleese
Paul N. Reinsch, N. Lamar Reinsch

Part II. Pre- and Post-Python Collaborations

8. Joining the Circus: The Pythons before Monty Python
Brian Cogan, Jeff Massey

9. Playing with the Past: The Complete and Utter History of Britain in the Context of Sixties Television
Kevin M. Flanagan

10. Thrilling Adventures in Post-Colonial Culture: From Empire to Commonwealth in Ripping Yarns and British Popular Culture
Rick Hudson

11.
A Liar’s Autobiography: Animation and the Unreliable Biopic
Annabelle Honess Roe

12. Superman in the Python Universe
Robert G. Weiner

13.
Starship Titanic and the Perils of Pythonesque Gaming
Robert Buerkle

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Film Theory, Performing Arts, Screen Performance, British Cinema, British Culture