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Monty Python: The Case Against

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 in the entertainment business generally? Robert Hewison answers these questions and many others in this book.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 96 pages

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