Monty Python, the Case Against Irreverence, Scurrility, Profanity, Vilification, and Licentious Abuse

by Robert Hewison

Book Overview

What have been the motives and the methods of those who have sought to censor and ban Python? How have the pythons responded to the censor's and the editor's pressures? How do these pressures operate... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394179498
• ISBN13: 9780394179490
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An important and interesting book

This book chronicles all the legal trouble of the Monty Python group, from the beginning to Life of Brian. It could be boring, but it is actually very funny. It contains a lot of material that was edited out by the Python's themselves becaues even they thought it too offensive! When you read about the aggression and legal wranglings of conservative "christians" you start wonder if Python parodied reality or if reality parodied the Python's! We can read about the attacks on Life of Brian as a blue-print for the new "crusade" against everything the evangelicals don't like.