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Terry Gilliam: Filmmaker and Cartoonist

Sabin, Roger (2008) Terry Gilliam: Filmmaker and Cartoonist. In: Sub/versions: Cultural Status, Genre and Critique. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 1847183727

Type of Research: Book Section
Creators: Sabin, Roger
Description:

This chapter featured a critical interview with filmmaker/cartoonist Terry Gilliam, and took in his work on 'Help!' Magazine, his influences from the American underground comix tradition (especially Robert Crumb) and his admiration for the Francophone comics scene. The interview also probed Gilliam’s politics in relation to the 1960s counterculture.

Additional Information (Publicly available):

Roger Sabin

Research Interests

Cultural history, cultural studies, subcultural studies, film and television studies. Specialisms: comics, graphic novels, manga; punk and counterculture; 19th century entertainment; television crime drama. Cultural theory, especially postmodernism in history.
Current Research

Currently completing one book and co-authoring two others. The sole-authored book is about 19th century ‘funny papers’/comics, and in particular the character 'Ally Sloper', the first comics superstar. The other two concern TV crime drama: one is about The Wire, and one about the history of the genre. Also, various smaller-scale projects involving comics, graphic novels, manga and other areas listed above.

Previous books include: As Author: Comics, Comics and Graphic Novels (Phaidon); Adult Comics: An Introduction (Routledge); The Lasting of the Mohicans (University Press of Mississippi – co-authored with Martin Barker). As Editor: Punk Rock: So What? (Routledge); Below Critical Radar: Fanzines and Alternative Comics 1976-Now (Codex - with Teal Triggs); The Movie Book (Phaidon – with Michael Newton).

Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: RPE
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Your affiliations with UAL: Colleges > Central Saint Martins
Date: 2008
Date Deposited: 22 Sep 2010 09:08
Last Modified: 10 Jan 2012 09:46
Item ID: 2358
URI: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/2358

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