This Element explores Jacques Derridas concept of hauntology and its connection to experimental music. Focusing on the 1960s, it examines how composers like John Cage and Luigi Nono used records and tape in composition. The Element delves into lo...Loe edasi...
This book maps the networks of puppetry used in applied theatre settings in relation to ecologies and communities. Drawing on thirty years of making theatre with objects, this field-defining book maps the terrain of applied puppetry....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526191922)
This book offers a touching tribute to the work of Caroline Aherne, whose unforgettable characters and ground-breaking programmes remain much-loved years after her untimely death. A thoughtful exploration of the work of this unique comedi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: William Morrow, ISBN-13: 9780063426955)
Jane Leeves—who starred as Frasier’s beloved and eccentric Daphne Moon—tells her unique and intimate story of coming into her own on one of the most successful sitcoms ever made. Over the course of more than a decade, Jan...Loe edasi...
A Waterstones Best History Book 2025BBC History Magazine‘Learned, entertaining and highly approachable’ BOB MORTIMER‘A treat’ ALICE LOXTON‘Five stars from me…’ AL MURRAYAn unmissable collaboration between two comedy legends – an irresistible, family-...Loe edasi...
This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Leiden University Press, ISBN-13: 9789087284756)
This collection of essays on circus histories and theories focusing on the Global South and its transnational contexts is significant because circus studies has largely focused on the Global North. Many Latin American, African, and Asian regions hav...Loe edasi...
Today drag has an unprecedented mass cultural appeal. Reaching far beyond traditional queer venues and audiences into the mainstream, it has evolved into a booming industry worth millions of dollars. Drag is art, politics, lifestyle and en...Loe edasi...
This book presents a new way of understanding verbal humour. Drawing on contemporary theories of language and mind, it explores and explains how the language of humour works both in a text and in a reader. Through investigation of carefully consider...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: White Rabbit, ISBN-13: 9781399632874)
A thrilling, nauseating and painfully real (MEGAN NOLAN) novel that follows struggling stand-up comedian Billy Ray Schafer over seven spun-out days in the American Southwest...Loe edasi...
Laura LaPlaca, Anya Montiel, Ryan Lintelman, Mel Brooks, Laura LaPlaca, Ryan Lintelman, Jon Grinspan, Theodore S. Gonzalves, Ashley Olivia Mayor, John W. Troutman...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978837966)
More than just gags and giggles, comedy is a powerful force, reflecting our hopes and fears, helping us understand social and political changes, and creating a shared national culture. In this book, historians from the Smithsonian Institution and Nat...Loe edasi...
A comparative study revealing how socially conscious television creators in postwar France and Britain navigated institutional control, seizing moments of creative freedom to preserve style and meaning in the face of bureaucracy. The e...Loe edasi...
The award-winning co-anchor of PBS NewsHour presents a sweeping and insightful retrospective on the history of Black comedy in America.Black comedians have long played a pivotal role in shaping the American sense o...Loe edasi...
From the boy from Liverpool to Strictly Come Dancing champion, Chris McCausland takes you on a twenty-five-year journey of laughter, loss and triumph. Blind from sight loss, he rose through comedy, bootlegging ventures (kind of), nearly joinin...Loe edasi...
Peter Kay returns with his most entertaining autobiography yet! The Collectors Edition: The first hardback print run will feature an exclusive foiled board design. Order now to avoid missing out!...Loe edasi...
From the author of the acclaimed The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, recently made into an award-winning film by HBO, and the dark and scabrousSeasonal Suicide Notes, here at last comes the definitive book about comic genius by a...Loe edasi...
From the self-abasements of Charlie Chaplin and Lenny Bruce’s provocations to the present-day culture warring over figures like Dave Chappelle and Hannah Gadsby, comedians have always been not simply entertainers, but charismatic observers of (and...Loe edasi...
