Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1974
1974
•Reflects
a 20th-century, postmodern attitude to notion of an orderly universe
•Satirizes
forms of order—political, religious, military, etc.
•Influence
of Theater of the Absurd
–Life
is absurd, without fixed meaning/absolute truth
–Responds
to life’s absurdity with bizarre satiric humor