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1 online resource |
| Series |
Consciousness, literature and the arts 49 |
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Spike Milligan's Accordion: The Distortion of Time and Space in The Goon Show; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prelude: A Few Words of Explanation; Introduction; "Good morning, sir, welcome to Chapter Two": A Few Words on the Structure of This Book; 1 The Accordion under Construction: The Origins of Spike Milligan's Comedic Style, and of The Goon Show; 1 Portrait of The Milligan as a Young Goon: Laying the Groundwork for a Personal Vision of Comedy; 2 "Well, that's the end of that corny routine": The Goon Show's Sketchy Beginnings |
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3 New Producer, New Approach: Peter Eton and the Transformation of The Goon Show4 The Goon Show's 'Classic' Format: Dramatic Structures Mature in the Service of Comedic Immaturity; 5 Little Cardboard-and-String Heroes: The Goon Show's Regular Cast of Characters; 6 "This is the BBC": The Goon Show vis-à-vis Mainstream Practices in Contemporary Radio Drama; 6.1 "What is this Go On Show?" The BBC's Official Narratives and The Goon Show's Place in Them; 6.2 "Meantime, back in the BBC torture room": The Goon Show's Deviations from BBC Radio's Dominant Aesthetic for Dramaturgy and Performance |
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7 "Who are you, Ben Lyon?": The Goon Show's Thematic Links to Popular Culture between the Two World Wars2 The Accordion Beating Time: Temporal Distortions in The Goon Show; 1 Looking Backward to Look Forward Again: The Goon Show's Narrative Framework; 2 One Narrative, Many Narrators: The Goon Show's Democracy of Diegesis; 3 The Fragmentation of Time-Frames in The Goon Show and Its Effects on Narrative; 4 That Sabrina Sure Gets Around: The Free Flow of Anachronisms in The Goon Show; 5 Musical Interludes in The Goon Show: Interruptions in Narrative Flow and Opportunities for Temporal Distortion |
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6 The Ageless Aging Process of The Goon Show's Characters7 "I'm for the dreaded deading this week alright": The Impermanence of Death in The Goon Show; 8 The Passage of Time and the Completion of Tasks: Two Sides of the Same Coin; 9 Sounds and Their Effects on Temporality; Interruption 1: Milligan's Laws of Time; 3 The Accordion Stretching in All Directions: Spatial Distortions in The Goon Show; 1 Setting the Scene: A Few Words on the "Landscape" of Radio Theatre; 2 Mise en Scène as Mise sans Scène: The Goon Show as 'Black Box' Theatre for Radio |
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3 Contents Not Necessarily to Scale: The Variability of Container Capacity in The Goon Show4 "My Lord, a piece of junk being found on the King's Highway, it is declared treasure trove": The Appearance of Objects Exactly When, and Exactly Where, They Are Needed; 5 The Conundrum of Self-Duplication and Rapid Spatial Displacement, or, Being in Two Places at Once is Easier When You Don't Know It Can't be Done; 6 Perceptual Fields Forever: Milligan's Use of Simultaneous Multiple Perspectives within the Same Scene; 6.1 The Perception of Doors |
| Summary |
It's all rather confusing, really" was one of the catchphrases used by Spike Milligan in his ground-breaking radio comedy program 'The Goon Show'. In a series of mock-epics broadcast over the course of a decade, Milligan treated listeners to a cosmology governed by confusion, contradictions, fluidity and uncertainty. In 'The Goon Show 's universe, time and space expand and contract seemingly at will and without notice. The worldview featured in 'The Goon Show' looked both backward and forward: backward, in the sense that it paralleled strategies used by schoolchildren to understand time and space; forward, in the ways it anticipated and prefigured a number of key features of postmodern thought |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Goon show (Radio program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88224957
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Goon show (Radio program) fast |
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Space and time on radio.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Space and time on radio
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9004310703 |
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9789004310704 |
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