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Book about the Film Monty Python’s Life of Brian

Book about the Film Monty Python’s Life of Brian

A Book about the Film Monty Python’s Life of Brian

Darl Larsen

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Editorial:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2019
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Cultura popular
ISBN:
9781538134443
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This book identifies the plethora of cultural, historical, and topical references in the film Monty Python’s Life of Brian. The author cites and explains virtually every allusion—from first-century Jerusalem through 1970s Great Britain, from terror groups ancient to modern, from Pontius Pilate to Margaret Thatcher—that appears in the film.

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