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Paperback. Main Street America is kicking up its heels--and you're invited to the party! Goodbye sprawl-and-mall--hello downtown! Long-neglected town centers are coming to life once again, and the buzz is back on main streets all across the country. Num Pages: 240 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASZP; WTH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471192909
ISBN
9780471192909
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.72

Hardcover. As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance, both on and off the stage. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AMV; AN; ASZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137326867
ISBN
9781137326867
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.93
€ 48.23

Hardback. In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's 'prevailing taste for deformity'. This work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deeper social purpose as they generated popular and scientific debates over the meanings attached to bodily difference. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ASZW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528. Freak Shows and Modern British Culture. 288 pages, ill. In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's 'prevailing taste for deformity'. This work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deeper social purpose as they generated popular and scientific debates over the meanings attached to bodily difference. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ASZW; HBTB. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 22. Weight: 528.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520257689
ISBN
9780520257689
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.36
€ 65.36

Hardcover. Nadine George-Graves provides a historical narrative of their achievements and uses black feminist theories, feminist theories of performance, and theories of class and popular culture to analyze the many layers of performance in which the Whitman Sisters participated, on and off the stage. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; ASZH; HBT; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312225629
ISBN
9780312225629
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.89

Hardcover. Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected emotions, unplanned developments - and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish national identities derived from metropolitan cultures inevitably affected by the land itself and the people who had been there before them. Editor(s): Agnew, Vanessa; Lamb, Jonathan. Series: Re-Enactment History. Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZ; HBG; HBLL; HBTB; JFS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230576063
ISBN
9780230576063
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.53

Hardcover. This project investigates the implications of technology on identity in embodied performance, opening up a forum of debate exploring the interrelationship of and between identities in performance practices and considering how identity is formed, de-formed, blurred and celebrated within diverse approaches to technological performance practice. Editor(s): Broadhurst, Susan; Machon, Josephine. Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; ASZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230298880
ISBN
9780230298880
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Featuring contributions by new and established nineteenth-century theatre scholars, this collection of critical essays is the first of its kind devoted solely to Victorian pantomime. It takes us through the various manifestations of British pantomime in the Victorian period and its ambivalent relationship with Victorian values. Editor(s): Davis, Jim. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ASZH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221598
ISBN
9780230221598
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 104 pages, ,. BIC Classification: ANB; ASZB. Dimension: 150 x 272 x 10. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9783838200187
ISBN
9783838200187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.72

Hardback. In this definitive study of Hemingway's masterpiece on bull-fighting, Miriam Mandel addresses not only Hemingway's tome, but the bullfighting and the Spain of his time. Num Pages: 696 pages, 19 photographs, 37 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KBB; 2ABM; ASZX; DNF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 39. Weight in Grams: 839.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
696
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810839960
ISBN
9780810839960
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 249.38

Paperback. A Sunday Times Number One Bestseller. Britain's best loved comedienne, Miranda Hart, laments on the horrors of growing up and offers her younger self some essential advice on grappling with life's unexpected perils and blunders. Num Pages: 336 pages, b&w line drawings throughout. BIC Classification: APT; ASZB; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Digital original
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444734164
ISBN
9781444734164
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. The devil is a defiant, nefarious figure, the emblem of evil, and harbinger of the damned. However, the festive devil, turns the most hideous acts into playful transgressions. This volume presents a transnational and performance-centered approach to this character of fiestas, street festivals, and carnivals in North, Central, and South America. Editor(s): Riggio, Milla Cozart; Marino, Angela; Vignolo, Paolo. Num Pages: 384 pages, 36 halftones. BIC Classification: 1K; ASZP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857421791
ISBN
9780857421791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 35.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ANC; ASZB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Meriwether Publishing Ltd
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566081993
ISBN
9781566081993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 20.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1DFA; ASZP; HBJD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801486920
ISBN
9780801486920
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.45

Hardcover. Staging Stigma critically examines the freak show performance tradition, using meticulous historical research and cultural criticism to change the way we understand both performance and disability. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZP; ASZW; JFFG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230610668
ISBN
9780230610668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.93
€ 46.79

Paperback. A backstage look at music hall, variety and vaudeville, illustrated with the posters and the photographs of thetime. Num Pages: 320 pages, facsimiles, , portraits. BIC Classification: ASZH; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840021165
ISBN
9781840021165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.63

Paperback. Reveals how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. This book focuses on the work of the professional illusionists who actually made magic with moving pictures between 1895 and 1929. It combines film and theatre history to uncover the evidence of the exchanges between magic and filmmaking in the United States and France. Num Pages: 200 pages, 27 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; 3JJ; APF; ASZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252076978
ISBN
9780252076978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Hardcover. A far-reaching examination of exoticism, cultural internationalism and modernism's encounters with Indonesian tradition, Performing Otherness examines how Indonesia entered world stages through imperialism as an antimodern phantasm and through nationalism became a means of intercultural communication and cultural diplomacy. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMN; AN; ASD; ASZM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498. Java and Bali on International Stages, 1905-1952. Series: Studies in International Performance. 304 pages, 0, 18 black & white halftones. A far-reaching examination of exoticism, cultural internationalism and modernism's encounters with Indonesian tradition, Performing Otherness examines how Indonesia entered world stages through imperialism as an antimodern phantasm and through nationalism became a means of intercultural communication and cultural diplomacy. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1FMN; AN; ASD; ASZM. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 23. Weight: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230224629
ISBN
9780230224629
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; ASZB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138934238
ISBN
9781138934238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.17

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; ASZM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691608129
ISBN
9780691608129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.47
€ 42.58

Paperback. Chronicles the festival cycle in Teotitlan, a Zapotec village located fifteen miles from the capitol." Num Pages: 160 pages, 100 colour photos & 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; ASZP; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 268 x 193 x 15. Weight in Grams: 696.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780890134450
ISBN
9780890134450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.93

Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, 663 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: ASZW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 279. .
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764348457
ISBN
9780764348457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 28.63

Paperback. Fail-safe tricks and illusions are combined with tips on performance and principles of showmanship in this complete guide to creating magic acts. Num Pages: 320 pages, 59. BIC Classification: ASZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Derrydale Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781568332291
ISBN
9781568332291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.80

Paperback. In the late 19th century, Scandinavian urban dwellers developed a passion for a modern sort of visual spectacle: objects and effigies brought to life in realistic scenes. The period 1880-1910 was the high point of mannequin display in Europe. This title explores this phenomenon. Num Pages: 352 pages, 77 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DND; 1DNN; 1DNS; ASZ; GM; HBT; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691050744
ISBN
9780691050744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.35
€ 51.49

Hardback. Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: ASZ; AV; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252040719
ISBN
9780252040719
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.40

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