A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam (Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors)

"This edited collection provides a fresh, up-to-date exploration of this Terry Gilliam's oeuvre and artistic practice as a director whose films weave avant-garde cinematic style, imaginative exaggeration, and social critique together"-- Provided by publisher Cover Contents Introduction Terry Gilliam, The Man who Killed Don Quixote and Cinephilia Ideology through the Looking Glass‌‌ ‌‌Carnival and the Imaging of Language in Terry Gilliam’s Jabberwocky (1977) and Monty Pyt Subversion of the Cosmos in Time Bandits “I Think It Has Something to Do with Free Will” Meet to Eat. The Restaurant in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (1985) and The Fisher King (1991) A Bittersweet Apocalypse The Art of Deserts in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas‌‌‌ and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Between the Forest and Civilization Tideland and the Ossification of the Imaginary Faculties Wonderland and the Wasteland Black Hole The Zerø and One Theorem Afterword Index About the Editors‌‌‌‌ 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.