Poultry – ZooScope

Anya Portus
28th January 2019
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Dir. Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones. EMI Films. 1975.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Dir. Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones. EMI Films. 1975. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Anya Portus Anya Portus https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7f59d9a9de41b5d509d588b8de769a59?s=96&d=mm&r=g 28th January 2019 25th May 2021

In the opening scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail [1], a grassy hill is shown with the sound of horse’s hooves—only for a skipping King Arthur, and coconut-clomping…

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Dir. Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones. EMI Films. 1975.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Dir. Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones. EMI Films. 1975. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Anya Portus Anya Portus https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7f59d9a9de41b5d509d588b8de769a59?s=96&d=mm&r=g 12th December 2018 25th May 2021

This iconic scene fully exemplifies the film’s absurdist representation of the violence of the crusades, particularly the disproportionate violence of the Western invaders. It explores this using the similarly lopsided…

Bringing Up Baby . Dir. Howard Hawks. RKO Radio Pictures. 1938.

Bringing Up Baby . Dir. Howard Hawks. RKO Radio Pictures. 1938. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Elaine Yee Lam Wong Elaine Yee Lam Wong https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ac0efec18d2659d4bba1a6b6da465219?s=96&d=mm&r=g 15th January 2017 25th May 2021

Howard Hawks created a mass of parallels between the female and the leopard Baby in Bringing Up Baby. He displays a classical Hollywood screwball gender notion – women are wild while…