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The Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts represents a truly multi-dimensional exploration of the inter-relationships between audiences and performance.

The Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts represents a truly multi-dimensional exploration of the inter-relationships between audiences and performance.

Performance Studies: The Basics offers an overview of the multiple, often overlapping definitions of performance, from performance art, performance as everyday life, and rituals, to the performative dimensions of identity, such as gender, race and sexuality.

Performance Studies: The Basics offers an overview of the multiple, often overlapping definitions of performance, from performance art, performance as everyday life, and rituals, to the performative dimensions of identity, such as gender, race and sexuality.

Since 2016 there has been an outpouring of humour, comedy and satire on the United Kingdom's EU Referendum and decision to leave the EU, or Brexit.

Since 2016 there has been an outpouring of humour, comedy and satire on the United Kingdom's EU Referendum and decision to leave the EU, or Brexit.

Gomez-Pena Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gomez-Pena, a figure who stands alone as unique and ground-breaking in the history of performance art and as the artistic director of transdisciplinary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.

Gomez-Pena Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gomez-Pena, a figure who stands alone as unique and ground-breaking in the history of performance art and as the artistic director of transdisciplinary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.

The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this diverse and emerging field.

The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this diverse and emerging field.

This book is an ambitious and expansive examination of the visual language of self-injury in performance art from the 1960s to the present.

Whether you lust after it, loathe it, or feign apathy toward it, fame is in your face.

For every woman who ever loved a Vampire.

Finding Funds for Your Film or TV Project includes a complete overview of the many different ways to get funds for your film - from preparing the materials you need, such as business plans, private placement memorandums, trailers, sizzle reels, and crowd-funding pitches - to how to make effective presentations to prospective funders, from as family members, friends, and business associates, to angels, private investors, established producers, and film financiers.

An outsider becomes a hero and a boy becomes a man in this classic coming-of-age tale from the heyday of the three-ring circus, by three-time Newbery Honor Book author Eloise Jarvis McGraw.

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

A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise.

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

A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise.

'Like two wise (and wise-cracking) older sisters.

The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation.

Who was Dan Leno?

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

The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation.

Bad clownsthose malicious misfits of the midway who terrorize, haunt, and threaten ushave long been a cultural icon.

Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions.

Babylon Girls is a groundbreaking cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows-chorus lines, burlesque revues, cabaret acts, and the like-between 1890 and 1945.

Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton-a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs-anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider's account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating male heterosexual strip club "e;regulars.

Stand-Up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America is the first study of stand-up comedy as a form of art.

Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home front nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted men of the Allied Nations.

Examines the social and historical significance of women s contributions to American silent film comedy.

Explores self-consciousness and metafictional awareness in modern fairy tale and its expression across literary fairy tale, popular fairy tale, and fairy-tale film.

Translates an important example of late seventeenth-century French hybrid experimental fiction that provided the primary literary backdrop for the first French fairy tales.

Among silent film comedians, three names stand outCharlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloydbut Harry Langdon indisputably deserves to sit among them as the fourth "king.

Among silent film comedians, three names stand outCharlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloydbut Harry Langdon indisputably deserves to sit among them as the fourth "king.

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

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

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

As stage and screen artists explore new means to enhance their craft, a new wave of interest in expressive movement and physical improvisation has developed.

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

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

Stop-motion puppet animation is one of the most unusual and demanding art forms in the world.

Stop-motion puppet animation is one of the most unusual and demanding art forms in the world.

By the end of its five-year run on television, The Muppet Show had transformed its motley cast from fistfuls of felt to multi-media celebrities.

With a billion-dollar industry centred in Montreal, the province of Quebec has established itself as a major hub for contemporary circus.

The remarkable career of the American woman who became the world's first female master of Chinese shadow theatre.

Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars.

Calixa Lavallee, the composer of ';O Canada,' was the first Canadian-born musician to achieve an international reputation.