Other performing arts

Stop-motion animation has long been perceived as a technical practice rather than a creative, demanding art.

This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images.

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

The carnival sideshows of the past have left behind a fascinating legacy of mystery and intrigue.

A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy Mel Brooks, born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, is one of the great comic voices of the twentieth century.

Work is a joke.

My name is Joel Mawhinney, though I go by the name Joel M.

Introduction to Puppetry Arts shares the history, cultures, and traditions surrounding the ancient performance art of puppetry, along with an overview of puppet construction and performance techniques used around the world.

Calling all Ghosts fans!

How has the work and legacy of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed been interpreted and practised around the world?

If you're looking for a book that will teach you how to write comedy, we suggest you keep moving.

This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres for the performance of Shakespeare in North America.

Interpersonal Communication: Relating to Others emphasises the importance of communication confidence in a variety of interpersonal relationships and interpersonal contexts.

There was a time is screen culture when the facial close-up was a spectacular and mysterious image.

Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety.

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context.

Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events?

*A memoir and self-help manual by one of the country's most treasured comedians - for anyone who feels stuck in a rut but doesn't have the tools or self-belief to shake things up*In his mid-twenties, Jimmy was bored, boring, unfulfilled and underachieving.

Dad wasn't angry.

A charming glimpse of stage magic in the early twentieth century, this engaging manual's time-honored tricks range from sleight of hand with coins, cards, and rope to thought-reading and juggling.

The Wisniewskis, codirectors of the acclaimed Clarion Shadow Theatre, have modernized and simplified the techniques of the ancient art of shadow puppetry and created this easy step-by-step guide.

This antiquarian volume contains an easy-to-digest and novice-friendly guide to learning card tricks, with descriptions and instructions designed to teach the reader a number of shuffling techniques and related tricks.

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

Across the world, higher education and the actor and performer training sector are undergoing significant changes in response to the creative, economic and social effects of the global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and digital technologies.

Don't dance for the audience.

Michael Palin's bestselling diaries before, during and after Monty Python.

Theatre-Rites are regarded as pioneers in the field of object-led and site-specific performance, creating ground-breaking work for family audiences since 1995.

"e;An important and timely expansion of American racial discourse.

How do great athletes defy the power law of practice, according to which improvements in skill eventually plateau?

'A great read' Brendan O'Connor, RT In nearly three decades as a performer, Tommy Tiernan has never wanted to play it safe.

This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiquity.

This book explores xiangsheng, one of the most popular folk art performance genres in China, its enlistment by official propaganda machine after the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and its revival in popularity under Guo Degang and his Deyun Club.

This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour.

By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted.

Wayang kulit, or shadow puppetry, connects a mythic past to the present through public ritual performance and is one of most important performance traditions in Bali.

Comedy is a brutal business.

Traditional Carnival has been well documented with a vast array of books published on the subject.

In den letzten fünfzig Jahren hat der Zirkus einen bemerkenswerten Wandel erlebt.

Critical humorists and religion are steeped in a long-standing cultural antagonism.

A funny, poignant and inspirational story of widely acclaimed comedian, writer and producer, Tim Ferguson.

Originally published in 1933, this collection contains both of the works on magic put together by the author.

It is often suggested that there are 'secrets' to comedy or that it is 'lightning in a bottle', but the craft of comedy writing can be taught.

This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction.