Other performing arts Books
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Odissi and the Geeta Govinda
Book SynopsisThe book attempts to trace an overview of the different components that define the cultural landscape of the state of Odisha in relation to its history, religious cults, art, and literature and to link the development of the various aspects to the role played over the centuries by the Geeta Govinda poem in its different manifestations. From being an important component of the rituals performed in the Jagannath Temple to becoming an essential part of the people's daily lives and artistic expressions, this immortal poem has exercised its influence on the cultural landscape of the state from its early inception in the twelfth century until present times. Religious beliefs, visual representations, performative expressions, and literary compositions have been influenced by the strong emotional appeal contained in its verses.
£53.19
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. Amy Schumer and Philosophy
Book SynopsisWhy read a book about Amy Schumer and philosophy? After all, Amy Schumer is primarily known as a comedian, though she is also an actor, writer, and producer. One reason is that it will be enlightening. Amy Schumer is one of a handful of contemporary comedians filling the role of public philosopher. To be clear, Amy herself does not claim to be offering wisdom. This volume contains seventeen fun-filled chapters. One author makes the case that Amy uses humor to encourage her audience to consider important questions, for example, she does this when she discusses the trial of Bill Cosby while evoking fond memories of The Cosby Show. She essentially asks her audience to consider whether they give priority to unconflicted entertainment over justice for rape victims. In another chapter, the author casts a philosophical eye toward the action-comedy film Snatched and finds that it raises questions about responsibility: Is Schumer's character, Emily, responsible for getting kidnapTable of ContentsIntroduction: Dear Amy Misbehaving 1. Multiple Murderer Emily Middleton Charlene Elsby 2. Is the Unruly Woman a Platonic Hero or Foe? Cecilia Li 3. Putting the “fun” back in “non-refundable” Rob Luzecky Persona Non Grata 4. Self-Confidence and Self-Deprecation Camille Atkinson 5. “Brave” Daniel Malloy 6. Schumer’s Selfishness Rob Arp 7. To Be or Not to Be Perfect? Karin Flieswasser Schumer the Philosopher 8. The Funny Thing about Being Yourself Gregor Balke 9. No Wisdom to Offer You Jered Janes 10. Amy Schumer or The Incongruities Noël Carroll 11. Sexistentialism Gerald Browning 12. Girls Just Want to Have (Mediated) Fun Fernando Pagnoni Burns Women Are Funny 13. The Laughter and the Fury Leigh Kolb 14. Five Stereotypes that Sustain Grape Zones Michelle Ciurria 15. Are There Certain Things We Should Not Talk About? Verena Ehrnberger 16. Raucous Feminist, Racially Insensitive or Both? Jennifer Ware 17. Switching It Up Gerald Browning Author Bios References Index
£13.49
Riverbend Publishing Three Ringlings in Montana: Circus Trains to
Book SynopsisThe Ringling Brothers Circusthe world's greatest shows!made five brothers some of the wealthiest men in America in the early 1900s. One of themflamboyant John Ringlingcame to Montana in 1903 looking for investments. He ended up building a railroad and launching a ranching company. Richard, son of circus brother Alf T. Ringling, followed his Uncle John to Montana in 1917 and built a cattle and sheep empire. He and his family settled in a mansion in White Sulphur Springs. Richard's son Paul was born in Montana in 1920 and became a prominent rancher and state legislator. He still lives in the state as this book is published. The Ringlings made their marks in Montana in many ways, from a town named after them to the historic Bozeman Roundup rodeo.Author and historian Lee Rostad tells the Ringlings' Montana stories, plus tales of the circus's ups and downs, in this engrossing volume. Her research included access to the family's private papers and photographs, including many images in this book.
£11.39
Salamander Street Limited Little Wimmin
Book SynopsisCome join Figs in Wigs for their live art feminist adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women. Blurring the boundaries of live art, music, theatre, comedy and dance Little Wimmin will examine how we think about the past, what’s wrong with the present, and what we’re going to do about the future - if there even is one. Prepare to laugh at the traditions of theatre and poke fun at people’s obsession with ‘the classics’ as the Figs turn the novel on its head before dismantling it entirely and transforming it into an unrecognisable cosmic catastrophe that talks about climate change, astrology and the infinite nature of the universe. p.s Beth Dies. ★★★★ “Revelling in brazen, absurdist satire, outlandish performance collective Figs in Wigs do anything but revere the 19th-century classic, instead hurling at it an off-kilter blend of feminist performance art, stomach-ache comedy and futuristic dance… The whole production is a boisterous piss-take.” The Guardian “Stuffed with glorious visual and verbal puns… There are moments of sublime humour… A show that requires some effort and forbearance on the part of the audience but does not disappoint those willing to step outside their comfort zone and try something new.” British Theatre Guide “A fun, silly and extremely entertaining mockery of a classic.” Leisure Gal
£13.49
Salamander Street Limited Kardashian Trilogy: Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney
Book SynopsisA three-part accidental trilogy of performances about high art and celebrity and our increasingly tenuous grip on reality in the 21st century. Kourtney / Kim / Khloe Kardashian
£13.49
McFarland & Co Inc Oskar Panizza and the Love Council
Book Synopsis In 1894, German society was introduced to The Love Council, a scandalous new play by the playwright Oskar Panizza. The carnivalesque satire, dealing with the first recorded outbreak of syphilis in 1495, portrays the scourge as divine punishment for the rampant sexual excesses in the Vatican court of the Pope of the time, the notorious Rodrigo Borgia. Panizza was imprisoned for one year on 93 counts of blasphemy, the harshest sentence ever given to an artist in the Second Empire. This book contains a detailed history of the play on stage and the court proceedings that led to Panizza''s imprisonment. A new English translation of the play is included, as well as a biography of its avant-garde, modernist author.
£34.19
McFarland & Co Inc Nils Thor Granlund
Book Synopsis Nils T. Granlund (1882-1957) created the first movie preview, filmed the first commercial, was the first to broadcast a live sports event, and, as a popular radio personality, introduced the Jazz Age to America via his broadcasts from Harlem''s Cotton Club. He is also acknowledged as the creator of the modern nightclub, introducing the high-kicking chorus line to the stages of Las Vegas. But though he was among the highest-grossing entertainers of the World War II era--famous enough to star as himself in several Hollywood films--he died virtually penniless, and today is all but forgotten. This work is a comprehensive biography of the man known as NTG, from his herding reindeer in Sweden to shepherding the most beautiful chorus girls on Broadway.
£23.96
Lulu Press Der Marquis Von Keith
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£11.80
McSweeney's Publishing Comedy by the Numbers
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Dirty Daddy
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£59.49
Black Eye Entertainment Fibber McGee Molly Vol. 1
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£41.25
Simon & Schuster Audio The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
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£29.99
Public Affairs Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James
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£30.00
Blackstone Publishing Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be
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£26.21
Turner Publishing Company So You Want to Be in Show Business: A Hollywood
Book SynopsisVeteran agent Steve Stevens offers insight into breaking into TV, movies, etc-particularly in the LA market.
£10.44
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Performing Brazil Essays on Culture Identity and
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£27.96
McFarland & Company Fred Stone A Biography of the Tightrope Walker Acrobat and Broadway Actor
Book SynopsisFred Stone was one of America's most versatile and talented entertainers: he could do everything from tightrope walking to song-and-dance to straight drama. This work chronicles his extraordinary life and career.
£37.46
McFarland & Company Eddie Foy A Biography of the Early Popular Stage Comedian
Book SynopsisA versatile performer, Eddie Foy contributed to the development of popular theater from the Civil War to the Roaring Twenties, from poverty-inspired Irish two-acts to lavish musical comedies. This biography of Foy tells the story of his indigent childhood in New York's Bowery and in Chicago.
£29.96
McFarland & Company Satyric and Heroic Mimes
Book Synopsis The origin and essence of the Western mime are examined in the first part of the book. Traceable to the masked roleplaying of Greek theater, many of the sacred functions of mime in early rituals were carried into later secular performances. The second part looks at pantomime, from the shamans to modern theatrical performers such as Deburau and Marceau.Trade Reviewthoughtfully constructed bibliography.... Recommended""-Choice
£23.96
Hachette Books The Orton Diaries
Book SynopsisTo be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature. When Joe Orton (1933-1967) wrote those words in his diary in May 1967, he was being hailed as the greatest comic playwright since Oscar Wilde for his darkly hilarious Entertaining Mr. Sloane and the farce hit Loot , and was completing What the Butler Saw but less than three months later, his longtime companion, Kenneth Halliwell, smashed in Orton''s skull with a hammer before killing himself. The Orton Diaries , written during his last eight months, chronicle in a remarkably candid style his outrageously unfettered life: his literary success, capped by an Evening Standard Award and overtures from the Beatles his sexual escapades,at his mother''s funeral, with a dwarf in Brighton, and, extensively, in Tangiers and the breakdown of his sixteen-year marriage to Halliwell, the relationship that transformed and destroyed him. Edited with a superb introduction by John Lahr, TheTable of ContentsThe Diaries * London December 1966May 1967 * Tangier MayJune 1967 * LondonAugust 1967 Appendices * The Edna Welthorpe Letters * Chronology * List of Published Work
£999.99
Cambridge University Press The Victorian Music Hall
Book SynopsisThis book is the first serious study of the Victorian music hall from a national perspective. It outlines the history of the halls, their programmes and the particular composition of their audiences, and examines specific conflicts in London and the regions in terms of class and culture. The London scene is shown as being untypical for the nation as a whole.Trade Review"...very solid and meticulously researched achievement...firmly based in the scholarly literature on the halls while definitely extending its boundaries. It is an important historical study of Victorian popular culture...." Michael Pickering, Victorian Studies"...a vital contribution to the field, the result of pioneering research that sets the halls in a truly national perspective for the first time. ...anyone concerned with social/cultural formations in Victorian Britain will need to take full account of the complexity and loical diversity in the development of cultural institutions, and in their relations with the wider society, that Dagmar Kift has demonstrated so effectively in this book. It will be indispensable to all students of the music halls, and of great value to historians of nineteenth century culture and society." Philemon Eva, Journal of Social History"...Kift provides an excellent overview of recent work on the music hall as well as groundbreaking analyses of the provincial halls and their legal troubles. ...an important book that brings fresh evidence and sophisticated interpretation to the complex interelations of popular entertainment, audiences, local government, and pressure groups." Martha Vicinus, American Historical Review"...providing a mine of knowledge and resources for future scholarship." Essays in TheatreTable of ContentsPart I. The English Music Hall: 1. History; 2. The music-hall programme; 3. The audience; Part II. Cultures in Conflict: 4. 1840–1865: rivalry in leisure; 5. 1860–1877: the 'demon drink'; 6. 1875–1888: programmes and purifiers; 7. The special case of London, 1840–1888; 8. Controversies in the 1890s.
£90.00
Lulu.com Eilandje bewoner Deel 2
£9.56
£21.13
Mistress Candice Twisted Phone Sex
£15.50
Jim Chevallier Suicide Monologues for Actors and Others
£8.06
£14.96
Bellamy House New World Extra
£9.97
Monomyth Music Pop Music Theory
£36.57
Mondas Publishing Irish Pub Songs For The 5String Banjo Volume 1
£11.62
Mantra Press Mousecatraz The Disney College Program
£14.96
iUniverse The Purpose Of The Dance VOLUME 1
£9.68
TIM SWIKE Guitar Electronics Understanding Wiring Learn Step By Step How To Completely Wire Your Guitar
£13.68
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£9.93
Alfred Hitchler Rose wass coming to me
£12.87
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Successful Singing Auditions by Fisher Jeremy Author ON Mar292002 Paperback
Book SynopsisDr. Gillyanne Kayes is a renowned singing voice specialist and voice researcher. She is internationally recognised as an expert in functioning of singing voice, and as a vocal troubleshooter'. Numerous West End and international artists continue to benefit from her training.Jeremy Fisher is creator of the UK's first downloadable video endoscopy ebooks, and recently created a Voicebox Video for the Science Museum's Dana Centre in London. As a classical musician, Jeremy has worked as repetiteur on eleven productions for Scottish Opera and Opera North, three for the D'Oyly Carte and three for Music Theatre London. He was guest solo artiste for the Yamaha Corporation for five years and Musical Director for the Scarborough Spa Orchestra. Jeremy has also worked extensively in the West End, and as an MD has toured the UK and Europe. Fisher taught singing at the Actors Centre in London for five years and has coached teachers and performers in the use of computer voice anal
£19.99
Simon & Schuster How to Be Funny The One and Only Practical Guide for Every Occasion Situation and Disaster no kidding
Book SynopsisSynopsis coming soon.......
£11.48
Rutgers University Press Yellowface Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance1850s1920s
Book SynopsisKrystyn R. Moon explores the contributions of writers, performers, producers, and consumers in order to demonstrate how popular music and performance has played an important role in constructing Chinese and Chinese American stereotypes. The book brings to life the rich musical period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Trade Review"Yellowface details the theatrical and musical history of Chinese and Chinese American performance at a time when 'Asian American' identity was unheard of. It should be a welcome addition to Asian American studies and American cultural history, as well as theater and music history." -- Josephine Lee * author of Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage *"Krystyn Moon has produced a finely detailed and nuanced study of China and Chinese Americans on the nineteenth-century American musical stage. Yellowface is an important work for anyone interested in the history of American popular culture and race." -- Robert G. Lee * author of Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture *"Yellowface details the theatrical and musical history of Chinese and Chinese American performance at a time when 'Asian American' identity was unheard of. It should be a welcome addition to Asian American studies and American cultural history, as well as theater and music history." -- Josephine Lee * author of Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage *"Krystyn Moon has produced a finely detailed and nuanced study of China and Chinese Americans on the nineteenth-century American musical stage. Yellowface is an important work for anyone interested in the history of American popular culture and race." -- Robert G. Lee * author of Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture *
£27.90
New York University Press Drag A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts
Book SynopsisMen have been dressing as women on stage for hundreds of years, dating back to the thirteenth century when the Church forbade the appearance of female actors but condoned that of men and boys disguised as the opposite sex. Forms of travestism can be traced back to the dawn of theatre and are found in all corners of the world, notably in China and Japan. In recent years, of course, drag has witnessed a dramatic and widespread revival. Newsday recently observed, People are talking about all those fabulous heterosexual film idols who now can't seem to wait to get tarted up in drag and do their screen bits as fishnet queens. Drawing on a cinematic tradition popularized by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot, Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) and Robin Williams (Mrs. Doubtfire) have each delighted mainstream audiences with their portrayals of women. Even former drag queens have experience newfound fame; witness the recent popularity of the late Divine, renowned for her oddly compelli
£32.66
Broadway Play Publishing Inc.,U.S. Plays by Megan Terry
£15.45
Wildside Press Burnt Cork and Tambourines A Source Book for Negro Minstrelsy 11 Clipper Studies in the Theatre
£14.99
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£10.00
AHS & SJS Books 100 GREAT ALBUMS
£11.99
Charles Iscove The Lost Lennon Tapes Project
£20.50
Casa Flamingo Literary Arts Ward Hall King of the Sideshow
£15.20
Written by Clark, Publishing The Bare Bones Book of Screenwriting
£12.95
Fourth Horseman Back to Frank Black
£37.55
