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

Given that slaveholders prohibited the creation of African-style performing objects, is there a traceable connection between traditional African puppets, masks, and performing objects and contemporary African American puppetry?

I was standing in the park today wondering, why does a Frisbee appear larger the closer it gets?

Bringing together a range of perspectives to examine the full impact of political, socio-economic or psychological experiences of exile, Performing Exile: Foreign Bodies presents an inclusive mix of voices from varied cultural and geographic affiliations.

This book reprints and analyses reviews of music hall acts from the family magazine The Red Letter, which was published by the Scottish based firm D C Thomson from 1899 to 1987.

This story the story of making the first show is our record of how uncertain, optimistic, idealistic and na ve we felt back then.

Improvisational comedy has exploded over the last several decades.

What is a live performance?

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

Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall.

Historian Johan Huizinga once described game playing as the motor of humanity's cultural development, predating art and literature.

The Kwagh-hir Theater: A Weapon for Social Action represents a significant milestone in the documentation and theorization of non-Western theater.

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Part fascinating history and part practical manual, this engaging guide takes the position that the Ouija Board is indeed as powerful as its detractors claim, revealing the dark secrets and hidden truths of this curious, enduring ';game.

In recent years drag performance has moved from the fringes to emerge as a mainstream phenomenon, showcased on TV shows in the US and the UK.

Indispensable book for magicians, containing many methods and sleights not found in other standard books.

He was a radical stand up who dared to question the values of small town America and the evils of American foreign policy.

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

This biography profiles Jon Stewart, television's most incisive deliverer of the fake news.

Completed before he died, thirty years ago, this is the newly discovered autobiography of one of the most influential comedians of recent times, Marty Feldman.

Work is a joke.

For young people, the space of the drama classroom can be a space for deep learning as they struggle across difference to create something together with common purpose.

'This is the kind of book that troubles grey-suited committees of academic peers.

Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages.

This book develops a model to examine the language of humour, which is multimodal and accounts for the possibility of transmutation of humour as it is performed through editorial cartoons.

'The course of true love never did run smooth' so says Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and for more than 2000 years the problems faced by young men and women fighting to find and keep an appropriate sexual partner have been a theatrical staple.

This volume is the first authoritative historical textbook to look at the origins, development and evolution of seaside pierrot troupes and concert parties and their popular performance heritage.

Becoming Carole Lombard: Stardom, Comedy and Legacy is a historical critique of the development and reception of Carole Lombard's stardom from the classical Hollywood period to present day.

This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment.

This engaging account explains the meaning and origins of performance theory and why it has become so important.

'In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques LecoqJacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age.

"Fragte man mich nach der Herkunft, ich sagte: Ich komme von Schubert, Cave, Cohen und so weiter …"Anna Baar erzählt von Menschen und Werken, die ihre ästhetische Welterschließung auf unterschiedlichste Weise beeinflusst haben.

This book reprints and analyses reviews of music hall acts from the family magazine The Red Letter, which was published by the Scottish based firm D C Thomson from 1899 to 1987.

The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern argues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position within the antebellum literary marketplace dominated by women authors of sentimental fiction, writers Nathaniel Hawthorne (in)famously called "e;the damn mob of scribbling women.

An up-to-date, contextualized assessment of the impact of the ''festivalization'' of culture around the world.

Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city Cardiff.

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.

Get wild.

This book argues that Old Comedy's parodic and non-parodic engagement with tragedy, satyr play, and contemporary lyric is geared to enhancing its own status as the preeminent discourse on Athenian art, politics and society.

'The funniest man in the world has written the funniest book in the world' DAVID WALLIAMS'A brilliant insight into what it takes to go from regular funny bloke to one of the best stand-ups I've ever seen' LEE MACK'Proper laugh-out-loud funny' JOE LYCETTAfter a childhood spent making smoke bombs, killing wasps and carving soap in 70s Kent, Harry Hill then found himself in charge of hundreds of sick people as a junior doctor.

Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this book examines how drag performance is a political, socio-cultural practice with a widespread lineage throughout the history of performance.

Who was Dan Leno?

A raw yet humorous memoir detailing the troubled life and mind of an American comic icon, as seen in Netflix's Cracked Up: The Darrell Hammond Story.

Ron Athey is one of the most important, prolific and influential performance artists of the past four decades.