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The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture.

Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis puts the sitcom character on the analyst's couch and closely examines the characters of Basil Fawlty, Lucy Ricardo and Kim from Australia's Kath & Kim, in order to reveal the essential elements that must exist in a sitcom before even the first joke is written.

When political protest is read as epidemic madness, religious ecstasy as nervous disease, and angular dance moves as dark and uncouth, the 'disorder' being described is choreomania.

This book, first of its kind in the Indian context, brings together both a theoretical understanding of various aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy, and case studies of various forms of stand-up comedy in India.

Contextualizing the duo's work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century's most successful double-act.

The early years of the twenty-first century have witnessed a proliferation of non-fiction, reality-based performance genres, including documentary and verbatim theatre, site-specific theatre, autobiographical theatre, and immersive theatre.

This text contains a comprehensive guide to learning a range of baffling and impressive magic tricks.

Everyone has an opinion about Matt Rife, who at twenty-eight years old is both the hottest and most controversial comedian in America.

The little-known true story of how a flamboyant circus promoter helped introduce Japan to the West in the late 19th century.

Step right up, Ladies and Germs, and feast your eyes on the incomparable wonders of a hidden world!

This unusual book, containing an impressive variety of magic tricks using billiard balls, is sure to delight young and old alike and is the perfect introduction to magic of this type.

This collection is the first to focus on the transgressive and transformative power of American female humorists.

This anthology negotiates the influential, yet silent educational presence of spiritualities within the field of somatic movement dance education internationally.

This book examines the interconnections between punk and alternative comedy (altcom).

This antiquarian volume contains an introductory guide to puppetry, including complete instructions for making your own puppet, information on performing, handy hints and tips, and much more.

A 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleLove at first sight, whirlwind marriages, break-ups, divorces, remarriage.

Focuses on the operatic soprano as the diva and her relationships with technology from the 1820s to the digital age.

'Brilliantly funny.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt des japanischen No-Theaters – eine der ältesten und geheimnisvollsten Bühnenkünste der Welt.

With thousands of outlets worldwide and growing, audio drama is the new frontier in storytelling.

This early manual of tricks is an absorbing work which will prove of much interest to the enthusiast or historian of magic.

Clowns' slapstick is their primary mode of performance and allows them to provoke audiences to laughter wherever they perform.

Revel in the power of human creativity with this completely revised and expanded edition of Burning Man: Art on Fire, illustrated with over 250 gorgeous color photos.

Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century.

Mastered the art of throwing your voice but not sure what to say?

With a fondness for spoonerisms and double entendres, Ronnie Barker is one of the nation s greatest comics.

This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world.

Whenever stripper Gypsy Rose Lee encountered public criticism, she spoke frankly in her own defense.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment brings together a cross-section of artists and scholars engaged with the phenomenon of reenactment in dance from a practical and theoretical standpoint.

Poetry is increasingly democratic in its use of different formats, but it can be difficult to know how to navigate the range of options available.

'I immersed myself in magic.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment brings together a cross-section of artists and scholars engaged with the phenomenon of reenactment in dance from a practical and theoretical standpoint.

Following the first collection of story drama structures, Into the Story 2: More Stories!

This is the first book to offer a clear introduction to Kattaikkuttu (or Terukkuttu), a vibrant, vocal and physical outdoor Tamil theatre tradition from India.

Once in a lifetime a venue comes along that changes show business dramatically, that fosters growth and camaraderie, experimentation and freedom.

This book explores comic performance in Pakistan through the vibrant Indo-Muslim tradition of the Punjabi bhand which now holds a marginal space in contemporary weddings.

The beginner's guide to mental magic No rabbits.

This comprehensive introduction to table top magic tricks will enthral the magician of all ages.

This book serves as both a textbook and reference for faculty and students in LIS courses on storytelling and a professional guide for practicing librarians, particularly youth services librarians in public and school libraries.

***WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER***'A smart, funny, brilliant book on how to be smart about being funny, brilliantly' Sarah Cooper'This book has finally convinced me that joking around can actually be important and powerful' Ed Gamble'Eye-opening, important and utterly enjoyable.

A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the silent days to the present, this authoritative guide offers an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its formative social, cultural and political context A wide-ranging collection of 24 essays exploring film comedy from the silent era to the present International in scope, the collection embraces not just American cinema, including Native American and African American, but also comic films from Europe, the Middle East, and Korea Essays explore sub-genres, performers, and cultural perspectives such as gender, politics, and history in addition to individual works Engages with different strands of comedy including slapstick, romantic, satirical and ironic Features original entries from a diverse group of multidisciplinary international contributors

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This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of theatrically-released spinoff films derived from British radio and television sitcoms.

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