Xiangsheng and the Emergence of Guo Degang in Contemporary China
This book explores xiangsheng, one of the most popular folk art performance genres in China, its...
EAN: 9789811581151
Russell Brand: Comedy, Celebrity, Politics
It builds on scholarly work in the area of celebrity politics to develop an original analytic...
EAN: 9781137596277
Conjuring Science
Conjuring Science explores the history of magic shows and scientific entertainment.
EAN: 9781137497680
Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905
Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crude stereotypes that positioned the...
EAN: 9781137482648
Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause
Part biographic inquiry, part lyric portraiture, radio producer Shawn Wen reanimates...
EAN: 9781941411483
Performance and Cosmopolitics
This ground-breaking study of cross-cultural theatre in the Australasian region focuses on...
EAN: 9780230003408
Black & White & Weird All Over
'Weird Al' Yankovic is one of music's most beloved figures. A skilled accordion player and...
EAN: 9781948221160
Vaudeville Wars
This book maps the intriguing story about how the tycoons of the two most powerful circuits,...
EAN: 9781403968265
History of Television News Parody in America
This book provides the first history of the television news parody genre, analyzing how these...
EAN: 9781793637789
Rising to the Surface
The rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s....
EAN: 9780571368778
Four of the Three Musketeers
Before film made them international comedy legends, the Marx Brothers developed their comic...
EAN: 9780810145757
Sh*t Joe Rogan Says
Go the Joe Rogan way. Sh*t Joe Rogan Says is a book of motivation, inspiration, and reflections...
EAN: 9781510774612
Magic
The first official book from TikTok and YouTube phenomenon, The Magic Man, Dan Rhodes.
EAN: 9781472294746
Drawing the Curtain
Drawing the Curtain examines the ways in which Miguel de Cervantes experiments with theatre and...
EAN: 9781487508777
Handbook of Diction for Singers
Featuring updates, expansions, and a new chapter on phonetic symbols and unique sounds in...
EAN: 9780197639511
Midnight in Cairo
The thrilling story of Cairo's decadent nightlife in the early 20th century, told with women at...
EAN: 9780863569364
