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Hardcover. One of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular entertainment genre. This book examines stand-up comedy from the perspective of the narrated self, through the prism of the fabricated comedy persona, including Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran and Maeve Higgins. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; ASZB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343895
- ISBN
- 9781137343895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. By tracing the effects of unprecedented immigration, the advent of the new woman, and the little-known vaudeville careers of performers like the Elinore Sisters, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers, DesRochers examines the relation between comedic vaudeville acts and progressive reformers as they fought over the new definition of "Americanness." Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; ASZH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137357427
- ISBN
- 9781137357427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner have been partners in life and work for more than 40 years. Over those years they have been comedic pioneers in television, sound recording, film, theater, and animation. This book explores the ways they have used and expanded notions of queer to make their unique impact on American culture. Num Pages: 202 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASZB; JFCA; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358233
- ISBN
- 9781137358233
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.33
€ 138.33
Hardcover. Exotic animals were coveted commodities in nineteenth-century Britain. Spectators flocked to zoos and menageries to see female lion tamers and hungry hippos. Helen Cowie examines zoos and travelling menageries in the period 1800-1880, using animal exhibitions to examine issues of class, gender, imperial culture and animal welfare. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 1 graphs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ASZX; HBTB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384430
- ISBN
- 9781137384430
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.99
€ 149.99
Hardcover. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZB; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137415134
- ISBN
- 9781137415134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crude stereotypes that positioned the Irish immigrant in America as the antithesis of native-born American citizens. Using primary archival material, Mooney argues that the vaudeville stage was an important venue in which an Irish-American identity was constructed, negotiated, and refined. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; ASZH; JFCA; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482648
- ISBN
- 9781137482648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.78
€ 138.78
hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy. Num Pages: 230 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 11 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKP; ASZB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137566300
- ISBN
- 9781137566300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.81
€ 138.81
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
€ 116.55
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
€ 66.95
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
€ 128.53
Taking readers inside the burlesque houses of Depression-era America, Davis explores the role of comedy in a show remembered mostly for strip-tease. It examines how burlesque comics, straightmen, and talking women approached the craft of comedy, working in a genre that relied on a remembered tradition of comedy bits that circulated orally. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 304 pages, Includes 21 pgs illus. BIC Classification: 3JJG; AN; ASZH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378729
- ISBN
- 9781137378729
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 47.12
€ 52.93
€ 47.12
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
€ 30.99
€ 20.67
hardcover. A Mile of Make Believe examines the unique history of the Santa Claus parade in Canada. This volume focuses on the Eaton's sponsored parades that occurred in Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg as well as the shorter-lived parades in Calgary and Edmonton. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; ASZP; HBTB; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442630963
- ISBN
- 9781442630963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.15
€ 68.15
Paperback. The 30 original, reproducible puppet scripts in this collection are designed for the one-person show. Advice and suggestions on all aspects of presenting a puppet show, patterns for puppets, and illustrated instructions for construction accompany the scripts. Grades PreK-3. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ASZM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 593.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Libraries Unlimited United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872877429
- ISBN
- 9780872877429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.46
€ 42.46
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821420959
- ISBN
- 9780821420959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. A fun and fully accessible step-by-step guide to brilliant illusions, tricks, puzzles and stunts, including close-up magic, stage magic, optical illusions and party tricks. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: ASZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 220 x 18. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Publisher
- Anness Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780194493
- ISBN
- 9781780194493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. Convince your audience that you can read their minds, predict their futures, and control their thoughts. Learn 17 tricks that anyone with a little guile and patter can perform to entertain and amuse. " Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ASZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- IMM Lifestyle Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781504800747
- ISBN
- 9781504800747
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.82
€ 11.82
Hardback. Editor(s): Meyer, Regina G. Num Pages: 182 pages, b/w photos, tables & charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; ASZP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 182
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612098258
- ISBN
- 9781612098258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.82€ 95.53
€ 137.82
€ 95.53
Hardback. Ho-Chunk powwows are the oldest powwows in the Midwest and among the oldest in the US, beginning in 1902 outside Black River Falls in west-central Wisconsin. Grant Arndt examines Wisconsin Ho-Chunk powwow traditions and the meanings of cultural performances and rituals in the wake of North American settler colonialism. Num Pages: 376 pages, 9 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNW; ASZP; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 176 x 278 x 33. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803233522
- ISBN
- 9780803233522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. Takes a comprehensive view of short-subject slapstick comedy in the early sound era. Challenging the received wisdom that sound destroyed the slapstick tradition, the author explores the slapstick short's Depression-era development against a backdrop of changes in film industry practice, comedic tastes, and moviegoing culture. Num Pages: 259 pages, 39 b/w, 5 video, 2 audio. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APFN; ASZB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520288119
- ISBN
- 9780520288119
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 8 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ASZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 198 x 1. Weight in Grams: 42.
- Publisher
- Icon Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 8
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780500171
- ISBN
- 9781780500171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.04
€ 5.04
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 270 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APB; APF; ASZB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349949854
- ISBN
- 9781349949854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.11
€ 139.11
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1. BIC Classification: AJB; AJC; ASZP; JFSS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 304 x 238 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1708.
- Publisher
- powerHouse Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781576877630
- ISBN
- 9781576877630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.75€ 56.36
€ 57.75
€ 56.36
Paperback. Series: Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; ASZM; JFC; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896803046
- ISBN
- 9780896803046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13