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...
Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence and transgressive nature. This volume aims to recuperate the living image, t...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: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526179951)
This book uses a wide range of textual, visual and material evidence to offer the first comparative, interdisciplinary study of festivals in London and Paris. Its unique methodology, combining the tools of design history and the concerns of politica...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book, ISBN-13: 9781837932641)
The brilliant new Joseph Spector locked-room mystery. Spector investigates paranormal goings-on and murder at a former World War One hospital....Loe edasi...
BASED ON BOB MORTIMER AND ANDY DAWSONS HILARIOUS HIT PODCAST ATHLETICO MINCE If you like football but despair of its endless humourless self-importance, youll love this The Guardian Fans of surreal comedy will find plenty...Loe edasi...
Laura LaPlaca, Anya Montiel, Ryan Lintelman, Mel Brooks, Laura LaPlaca, Ryan Lintelman, Jon Grinspan, Theodore S. Gonzalves, Ashley Oliva Mayor, John W. Troutman...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-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...
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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Pan Books, ISBN-13: 9781035059966)
What has Ben Elton done?He’s written the most eagerly anticipated show business autobiography of the year. That’s what.And prior to that? Well, he’s pretty much done everything and worked with everybody and now he’s telling the who...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...
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...
This book positions stand-up comedy as a strategy for womens empowerment, using new materialist concepts to explore the affective and atmospheric dimensions of laughter, play and performance. In doing so, it engages with recent theoretical developme...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197786635)
Dance Anima proposes that the presence of dance can produce a feeling of soul in bodies beyond the human. That kinetic soul, which author Hilary Bergen terms anima is a valuable resource to animators, engineers, roboticists, and fil...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: BBC Proms, ISBN-13: 9781912114238)
The BBC Proms Guide is the official companion to the worlds greatest classical musical festival. The BBC Proms is the worlds biggest and longest-running classical musical festival and one of the jewels in the crown of the BBC. Held every...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197784044)
According to a widely held view in eighteenth-century Britain, Britons were somehow inherently unmusical. This supposed shortcoming was, in fact, a virtue. George Colman explicated this view when he wrote in 1762 that for arts and arms, a Briton is...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197699591)
Fabrications offers a field-expanding approach to the costume archive that gives new authority to the physical record and material culture of dance artefacts. Imaginatively organized according to a chronology of fabric--to invoke design/styl...Loe edasi...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia, the definitive story of the creation and legacy of Parks and Recreation, with exclusive interview content from its cast, crew, and creators, as well as an introduction...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479847488)
Before Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it allFirst Lady of Laughs tells the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we now call stand...Loe edasi...
A study of the fragments of Old Comedy, arguing that these fragments greatly enlarge our understanding of the history of Greek comedy. This is the first accessible volume exploring and analysing evidence for Greek Old Comedy through wha...Loe edasi...
Playing with Patterns on the Lute is a practical guide for lutenists of all levels who want to learn how to ornament their music with sixteenth-century divisions. It gives a method for studying and learning this skill, about which there are...Loe edasi...
Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence and transgressive nature. This volume aims to recuperate the living image, t...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: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526179951)
This book uses a wide range of textual, visual and material evidence to offer the first comparative, interdisciplinary study of festivals in London and Paris. Its unique methodology, combining the tools of design history and the concerns of politica...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book, ISBN-13: 9781837932641)
The brilliant new Joseph Spector locked-room mystery. Spector investigates paranormal goings-on and murder at a former World War One hospital....Loe edasi...
BASED ON BOB MORTIMER AND ANDY DAWSONS HILARIOUS HIT PODCAST ATHLETICO MINCE If you like football but despair of its endless humourless self-importance, youll love this The Guardian Fans of surreal comedy will find plenty...Loe edasi...
A guide to “theater of the oppressed” from the perspective of drama leader and audience collaborator—the joker. What is the theater of the oppressed—the theatrical forms arising in the 1970s that blur the line between performer and spe...Loe edasi...
This volume is the first to examine the impact, themes, and cultural significance of the Canadian comedy Letterkenny. Using the series as a lens, essays address subjects such as warrior ethos, the grief cycle, the relationship between Ca...Loe edasi...
This wide-ranging collection of essays considers works on the comedy of war and conflict from the very beginning of film in the 19th century to some of the most recent works. Topics include how films and television are made, from the creative c...Loe edasi...
Laura LaPlaca, Anya Montiel, Ryan Lintelman, Mel Brooks, Laura LaPlaca, Ryan Lintelman, Jon Grinspan, Theodore S. Gonzalves, Ashley Oliva Mayor, John W. Troutman...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN-13: 9780826369093)
A deep dive into the history of bullfighting, hunting, and animal control in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Mexico.In Perilous Beasts Stephen B. Neufeld explains how and why Mexicans accepted animal death as a part...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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Pan Books, ISBN-13: 9781035059966)
What has Ben Elton done?He’s written the most eagerly anticipated show business autobiography of the year. That’s what.And prior to that? Well, he’s pretty much done everything and worked with everybody and now he’s telling the who...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...
Tropical George Lambrini (aka George Kavanagh) shares his inspiring journey from performing as a child comedian on Britains Got Talent to becoming a sought-after DJ and family entertainer....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...
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...
