A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam

Sabine Planka is librarian for the humanities at the University Library of FernUniversität Hagen and visiting lecturer in the field of children’s literature at various universities such as Bielefeld University and Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Ian Bekker is professor in the English Department at North-West University. Philip van der Merwe is senior lecturer in the School of Languages at North-West University.

1.Terry Gilliam, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote and Cinephilia

Chris Broodryk

2.Ideology Through the Looking Glass: Terry Gilliam’s Lewis Carroll and the Politics of Comedy in Jabberwocky and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Garreth O’Brien

3.Carnival and the Imaging of Language in Terry Gilliam’s Jabberwocky (1977) and Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975)

Ian Bekker

4.Subversion of the Cosmos in Time Bandits

David Robinson

5.“‘I Think It Has Something to Do with Free Will’: Time Bandits as Gilliam’s Theodicy”

Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

6.“Meet to Eat. The Restaurant as Narrative Setting in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (1985) and The Fisher King (1991)”

Sabine Planka

7.“A Bittersweet Apocalypse: Averted Endings and Suspended Hope in 12 Monkeys” Andrew Grossman

8.“The Art of Deserts in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”

Philip van der Merwe

9.“Between the Forest and Civilization: Liminal Spaces in Terry Gilliam’s The Brothers Grimm (2005)”

Sabine Planka and Philip van der Merwe

10.“Tideland and the Ossification of the Imaginary Faculties”

Jonathan Fruoco

11.“Wonderland and the Wasteland: The Colorfully Dirty Mise en Scene of The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (2009)”

Ivy Roberts

12. “Black Hole: The Zero Theorem and the Pointless Quest,”

Michael Charlton

13.“The Zerø and One Theorem: A Meta/Physics of the Digital,”

Ulrich Meurer

Afterword: Gilliam’s Legacy

Karen Randell