Gilliamesque

Author : Terry Gilliam
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782111078

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Now is probably as good a time as any to make a full confession. . . Telling his story for the first time, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - not to mention co-founder of Monty Python's Flying Circus - recalls his extraordinary life so far. Featuring a cast of amazing supporting characters, including George Harrison, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Uma Thurman, Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger and all of the fellow Pythons, Gilliamesque is a rollercoaster ride through late twentieth century popular culture. Packed with never-before-seen artwork, photographs and commentary.

Author : Terry Gilliam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1782116990

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Gilliamesque by Terry Gilliam Pdf

GILLIAMESQUE LIMITED EDITION£250 To celebrate Terry Gilliam's 75th birthday, Canongate are releasing an exceptional limited edition of Gilliamesque. As well as a signed copy of Gilliam's 'pre-posthumous' memoir, this limited edition features an exclusive signed and numbered print, 'Book Worms', by Terry Gilliam, created exclusively for this volume. The book and print are cased in a beautiful cloth-bound collector's box. Only 75 copies are available. More on GILLIAMESQUE, the book:Telling his story for the first time, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - not to mention co-founder of Monty Python's Flying Circus - recalls his life so far. Packed with never-before-seen artwork, photographs and commentary, Gilliamesque blends the visual and the verbal with scabrous wit and fascinating insights.This book is an unrestrained look into a unique creative mind and an incomparable portrait of late twentieth-century popular culture.

Author : Terry Gilliam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Animators
ISBN : 1782111085

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Gilliamesque by Terry Gilliam Pdf

The raucous life story from the legendary film director and co-founder of Monty Python.

Author : Sabine Planka,Philip van der Merwe,Ian Bekker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666912265

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A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam by Sabine Planka,Philip van der Merwe,Ian Bekker Pdf

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) to his recently released and latest film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018). This volume presents Gilliam as a director whose films weave together an avant-garde cinematic style, imaginative exaggeration, and social critique. Consequently, while his films can seem artistically chaotic and 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.

Author : Chris Robinson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000919943

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Earmarked for Collision by Chris Robinson Pdf

Collage art and film date back to the early 20th century (the earliest collages have roots in 12th-century Japan). It was rooted in the age of consumerism where artists addressed an array of political and social issues by creating a carefully crafted collision of pre-existing images and sounds to generate new meanings and commentaries on the surrounding world. Collage has also pushed the boundaries of animation, by incorporating other artistic forms (e.g., photography, live action, experimental cinema, literature, found sound) while exploring an array of social, cultural and political issues. In Earmarked for Collision, award-winning writer Chris Robinson (The Animation Pimp, Mad Eyed Misfits, Unsung Heroes of Animation) takes us on a tour of the history of collage animation, cataloguing the collage works of notable artists like Larry Jordan, Harry Smith, Stan Vanderbeek, Terry Gilliam, Janie Geiser, Martha Colburn, Lewis Klahr, Run Wrake, Lei Lei, Kelly Sears, Jodie Mack, and many, many others.

Author : Terry Gilliam
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Comedians
ISBN : 1782111069

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Gilliamesque by Terry Gilliam Pdf

From his no-frills childhood in the icy wastes of Minnesota to some of the hottest water Hollywood had to offer, via the cutting edge of '60s and '70s counter-culture in New York, LA and London, Terry Gilliam's life has been as vivid and unorthodox as one of his films. Telling his story for the first time, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - not to mention co-founder of Monty Python's Flying Circus - recalls his life so far. Packed with never-before-seen artwork, photographs and commentary, Gilliamesque blends the visual and the verbal with scabrous wit and fascinating insights. Gilliam's 'pre-posthumous memoir' also features a cast of amazing supporting characters - George Harrison, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Uma Thurman, Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger and all of the fellow Pythons - as well as cameo appearances from some of the heaviest cultural hitters of modern times, from Woody Allen to Frank Zappa, Gloria Steinem to Robert Crumb, Richard Nixon to Hunter S. Thompson. Gilliam's encounters with the great and the not-so-good are revealing, funny and hugely entertaining. This book is an unrestrained look into a unique creative mind and an incomparable portrait of late twentieth-century popular culture.

Author : I.Q. Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134702763

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British Science Fiction Cinema by I.Q. Hunter Pdf

British Science Fiction Cinema is the first substantial study of a genre which, despite a sometimes troubled history, has produced some of the best British films, from the prewar classic Things to Come to Alien made in Britain by a British director. The contributors to this rich and provocative collection explore the diverse strangeness of British science fiction, from literary adaptions like Nineteen Eighty-Four and A Clockwork Orange to pulp fantasies and 'creature features' far removed from the acceptable face of British cinema. Through case studies of key films like The Day the Earth Caught Fire, contributors explore the unique themes and concerns of British science fiction, from the postwar boom years to more recent productions like Hardware, and examine how science fiction cinema drew on a variety of sources, from TV adaptions like Doctor Who and the Daleks, to the horror/sf crossovers produced from John Wyndham's cult novels The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos (filmed as Village of the Damned). How did budget restrictions encourage the use of the 'invasion narrative' in the 1950s films? And how did films such as Unearthly Stranger and Invasion reflect fears about the decline of Britain's economic and colonial power and the 'threat' of female sexuality? British Science Fiction Cinema celebrates the breadth and continuing vitality of British sf film-making, in both big-budget productions such as Brazil and Event Horizon and cult exploitation movies like Inseminoid and Lifeforce.

Author : Darl Larsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538115978

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A Book about the Film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life by Darl Larsen Pdf

This reference identifies and explains the cultural, historical, and topical allusions in the film Monty Python’s Meaning of Life, the Pythons’ third and final original feature as a complete group. In this resource, virtually every allusion and reference that appears in the film is identified and explained —from Britain’s waning Empire through the Winter of Discontent to Margaret Thatcher’s second-term mandate, from playing fields to battle fields, and from accountant pirates to sacred sperm. Organized chronologically by scene, the entries cover literary and metaphoric allusions, symbolisms, names, peoples, and places; as well as the many social, cultural, and historical elements that populate this film, and the Pythons’ work in general.

Author : Jeff Birkenstein,Anna Froula,Karen Randell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850384

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The Cinema of Terry Gilliam by Jeff Birkenstein,Anna Froula,Karen Randell Pdf

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."

Author : Sean Redmond
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231501842

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Liquid Metal by Sean Redmond Pdf

Liquid Metal brings together 'seminal' essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. Eight distinct sections cover such topics as the cyborg in science fiction; the science fiction city; time travel and the primal scene; science fiction fandom; and the 1950s invasion narratives. Important writings by Susan Sontag, Vivian Sobchack, Steve Neale, J.P. Telotte, Peter Biskind and Constance Penley are included.

Author : Jason Hurlburt
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479729616

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HERSTORY by Jason Hurlburt Pdf

Herstory was a vampire novel, a Hitler Wins novel, also a horror science fiction novel, and science fiction novel. The first unofficial Norma Shearer novel was the second released one. In this novel, Norma Shearer, the former Mrs. Irving Thalberg, has a romance with Eddie Gein, the first serial killer. They are sybarites, indulging in hedonism and many other pleasures.

Author : Terry Gilliam,Ben Thompson
Publisher : HarperDesign
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Animators
ISBN : 0062437437

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Gilliamesque by Terry Gilliam,Ben Thompson Pdf

A memoir from the screenwriter, animator, visionary film director, and founding member of Monty Python describes his life through recollections, anecdotes, and never-before-seen photographs and artwork.

Author : Terry Gilliam,Ben Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : OCLC:1302081227

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Gilliamesque by Terry Gilliam,Ben Thompson Pdf

Author : A. J. Black
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781913538859

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The Cinematic Connery by A. J. Black Pdf

Scotland's greatest export. The world's first super spy. Voted the sexiest man on the planet. Sir Sean Connery was a titanic figure on screen and off for over half a century. Behind the son of a factory worker, growing up in near-poverty on the harsh streets of pre-war Edinburgh, lay a timeless array of motion pictures that spanned multiple decades and saw Connery work across the globe with directors as diverse as Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay. And amongst them his greatest role, whether he liked it or not – Bond, James Bond. Author A. J. Black delves into Connery's life for more than mere biography, exploring not just the enormously varied pictures he made including crowd pleasing blockbusters such as The Untouchables or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, serious-minded fare in The Hill or The Offence, and his strange sojourns into eclectic fantasy with Zardoz or Time Bandits, but also the sweep of a career that crossed movie eras as well as decades. From skirmishes with the angry young men of the British New Wave, via becoming the cinematic icon of the 1960s as 007, through to a challenging reinvention as a unique older actor of stature in the 1980s, this exploration of the Cinematic Connery shows just how much his work reflected the changing movie-going tastes, political realities and cultural trends of the 20th century, and beyond . . .

Author : Giorgio Baruchello,Ársæll Már Arnarsson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783111256108

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Laughing Matters by Giorgio Baruchello,Ársæll Már Arnarsson Pdf

Part 2 of Volume 3 addresses in detail the conflicts between humor and cruelty, i.e., how cruelty can be unleashed against humor and, conversely, humor can be utilized against cruelty. Potent enmities to mirth and jollity are retrieved from a variety of socio-historical contexts, ranging from Europe’s medieval monasteries to the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre. Special attention is paid to the cruel humor and humorous cruelty arising thereof, insofar as such phenomena can reveal critical aspects of today’s neoliberal socio-economic order. In parallel, settings where humor has been used as an instrument to cope with suffered cruelty, whether natural or human in origin, are also retrieved and discussed. These also vary greatly and encompass domains such as hospital wards, 20th-century Jewish ghettoes, and contemporary funeral homes. A set of concluding reflections is then offered on the psychological, theological, ethical, and metaphysical roots of humor—and its cruel rejection.