Other performing arts

Looking for a comprehensive chronicle of the films of legendary director, screenwriter, and producer John Hughes?

A story of activists in South Saharan Africa using performance as a tactic of resistance and intervention in their struggles for human rights.

Manfred Maurenbrecher ist einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Liedermacher.

Bullfighting - the ultimate spectator sport.

This book explores the comedy and legacy of women working as performers on the music-hall stage from 1880-1920, and examines the significance of their previously overlooked contributions to British comic traditions.

Ningyo: The Art of the Japanese Doll features over 250 unique photographs as well as extensive commentary and background history.

This exhaustive work on flatulence breaks new wind on every aspect of abdominal gas in popular culture.

How do we define movement in performance?

'piercingly honest witty wonderful' - The Observer'My favourite way to learn is when a funny, clever, honest person is teaching me that's why I love Rosie Wilby!

ARE YOU READY FOR THIS ACCESS-ALL-AREAS PASS ONTO THE SET OF THE UK'S MUCH-LOVED ENTERTAINMENT GAMESHOW?

No place celebrates Christmas like Dixie, and with this charming, humorous guide, anyone can learn how to deck the halls, Southern styleIt's the one time of the year when both the divine and debutantes take center stage in a perfect storm of hot glue and cheese grits: Christmas.

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

This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures.

Faltfiguren, Bilder und Puppen entstehen aus nur einem Blatt Papier direkt vor den Augen der Kinder und machen die Erzählung biblischer Geschichten für sie sichtbar und erlebbar.

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.

A century ago, daily life ground to a halt when the circus rolled into town.

"e;You are Black; you are female,"e; Leslie Jones' father once said.

In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the "e;comedian's comedian.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019This book documents and discusses the meaning(s) of the creative process at play in the crafting and staging of circus acts.

'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.

Darren Walsh, the UK s first Pun Champion and the comedy circuit's Tallest Comedian , debuts his first and greatest joke book encompassing four misspent years of scribbling and doodling.

Alex Stone, part of the underground magic circuit, is determined to take his lifelong hobby to the professional level, to reach the pinnacle of this bizarre world and become a master magician.

From his early shorts in the 1910s through his final film in 1967, Charlie Chaplins genius embraced many arts: mime, dance, acting, music, writing, and directing.

Miguel de Cervantes's experimentation with theatricality is frequently tied to the notion of revelation and disclosure of hidden truths.

In the early twentieth century, publicly staged productions of significant historical, political, and religious events became increasingly popular-and increasingly grand-in Ireland.

Political humor and satire are, perhaps, as old as comedy itself, and they are crucial to our society and our collective sense of self.

This book is an advanced discussion forum for contemporary topics in the field of movement arts.

This volume gives an overview of cutting-edge research on mindfulness and its practical applications for maximizing performance and personal well-being.

Contributions by Jared N.

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC.

Get wild.

I Was Never Alone or Oporniki presents an original ethnographic stage play, based on fieldwork conducted in Russia with adults with disabilities.

This book looks at television comedy, drawn from across the UK and Ireland, and ranging chronologically from the 1980s to the 2020s.

First published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by revealing how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved cartoons.

With a little practice and this beginner's guide, you will quickly be amazing your friends and family with your new sleight-of-hand craft.

The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy examines how contemporary writer/performers are influenced by the comedic vaudevillians of the early 20th century.

In the first major academic work to examine British variety theatre, Double provides a detailed history of this art form and analyses its performance dynamics and techniques.

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC.

The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America.

Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games.

Bruce McConachie explores the biocultural basis of performance, from the cognitive processes that facilitate it, to what keeps us engaged.

This book takes a journey into the new and exciting created by a the wave of Indian comedians today, described affectionately here as the New Indian Nuttahs, and looks at what these tell us about identity, "e;Indianness"e;, censorship, feminism, diaspora and millennial India.

Bad clowns-those malicious misfits of the midway who terrorize, haunt, and threaten us-have long been a cultural icon.

'The working mum's version of Eddie Izzard's 50 marathons in 50 days.

The Emperor Napoléon III brought the Paris Opéra under the control of a handful of his most trusted politicians.

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.

Every year in downtown Las Vegas, often called "e;Old Vegas,"e; The Burlesque Hall of Fame reunion brings together members of the League of Exotic Dancers, one of the earliest unions for women in exotic entertainment, to perform their half-century-old routines.