The Cinema of Terry Gilliam: It's a Mad World (Directors' Cuts)

Jeff Birkenstein (Editor), Anna Froula (Editor), and Karen Randell (Editor)

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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."
  • ISBN10 0231165358
  • ISBN13 9780231165358
  • Publish Date 23 April 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Wallflower Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 256
  • Language English