Monty Python: A Chronological Listing of the Troupe's Creative Output, and Articles and Reviews About Them, 1969-1989 - Hardcover

McCall, Douglas L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0899505597 ISBN 13: 9780899505596

Publisher: McFarland Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Book by Douglas L. McCall

About this title

About the Author

Writer Douglas L. McCall of Bangor, Maine, has been interested in animation since childhood. He has been a Monty Python fan and collector for more than thirty years.

Reviews

Starting with The Complete and Utter History of Britain (1969) and ending with The Film Life of George (1989), which chronicles longtime Python fan/collaborator George Harrison's Handmade Films production company, this book lists everything the troupe was involved in both collectively and individually, plus articles, reviews, talk show appearances, and more, in a 20-year period. The cut-off dates--starting with the year the first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus aired, and ending in the 20th anniversary year--are very arbitrary, and the work might have been enhanced by inclusion of more pre-Python material that the sextet worked on and some 1990 material. The book is a delight to flip through and fun to read. The illustrations are disappointingly few, most taken from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983). The book is dedicated to the memory of Graham Chapman, who died on the eve of the 20th anniversary. Essential for television, film, and pop culture collections; public libraries will probably find this popular too.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: McFarland Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0899505597
• ISBN 13: 9780899505596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220