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paperback. A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment. Editor(s): Bean, Annemarie; Hatch, James V.; McNamara, Brooks. Num Pages: 324 pages, 25 illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: ASZP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819563002
ISBN
9780819563002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.35

Hardback. Examines the Independence holiday, exploring how this most important public festival in the civic calendar has given Mexicans a rich tradition of national celebration that is part creation myth, part official pomp, and part popular merrymaking. This work looks at how Independence Day festivities have provided a medium for informal education. Editor(s): Beezley, William H.; Lorey, David E. Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 261 pages, photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; ASZP; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842029148
ISBN
9780842029148
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.69

Paperback. Editor(s): Darien-Smith, Kate; Gillespie, Richard; Jordan, Caroline; Gillespie, Caroline; Willis, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 372 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: ASZ; HB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 167 x 246 x 24. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Monash University Publishing Australia
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780980464801
ISBN
9780980464801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 34.49

Hardback. Editor(s): Hill, Leslie; Paris, Helen. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 295 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASZ; DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403945037
ISBN
9781403945037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.93

Paperback. Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? This book, now in paperback, queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma. Editor(s): Hopkins, D. J.; Orr, Shelley; Solga, Kim. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASZ; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230300491
ISBN
9780230300491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.74

Paperback. This collection of essays by international scholars addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection, now in paperback, functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest dominant paradigms of performance studies. Editor(s): McKenzie, Jon; Roms, Heike; Wee, C. J. W.-L. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASZ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137011183
ISBN
9781137011183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.74

Paperback. Saxon brings together more than 300 letters written by the self-styled "Prince of Humbugs." Here we see him, opinionated and exuberant, with only the rarest flashes of introspection and self-doubt, haggling with business partners, blustering over politics, and attempting to get such friends as Mark Twain to endorse his latest schemes. Num Pages: 454 pages, 28 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASZW; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
454
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231056878
ISBN
9780231056878
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.01

Paperback. Pour yourself a cup of Rosie Lee, take the weight off your plates and prepare for a right giraffe as you read this engaging tale of, Micky Flanagan, 'an East Boy done good'. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; ASZB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784180027
ISBN
9781784180027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. As he stepped into the massive, roaring space of the Coliseum, he would have been aware of two things: first the bodies of those who had fought and fallen, their blood mingling with the hot dust of the arena floor; second, a sound as ominous as the scenes before him - that of swords being sharpened. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; ASZ; HBJD; HBLA; HBTS; WST. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Ebury Press
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0001040
ISBN
9780091886547
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; APB; APT; ASZB; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405920513
ISBN
9781405920513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, 62 halftones. BIC Classification: ASZG; WDM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 168 x 5. Weight in Grams: 133. 64 pages, 62 halftones. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ASZG; WDM. Dimension: 235 x 168 x 5. Weight: 134.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486418766
ISBN
9780486418766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.99
€ 7.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 x 16pp B&W plate. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPL; APB; ASZB; BM; JPFC; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408864548
ISBN
9781408864548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.91

Paperback. Alasdair Hutton recalls his time as the voice of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo from when he first started in 1992. The book compiles his personal memories and pays tribute to the talented host of people he worked with along the way.

Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; ASZP; BM; HBTB; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 202 x 14. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910745694
ISBN
9781910745694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.76

Paperback. Living in a time when it was scandalous even to show a bit of ankle, a small number of courageous women covered their bodies in tattoos and traveled the country, performing nearly nude on carnival stages. The Tattooed Lady uncovers the true stories behind these women, bringing them out of the sideshow realm and into their working class realities. Num Pages: 160 pages, 110 black & white halftones, 48 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; AFY; ASZW; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 254 x 9. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing
Edition
Second Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589799967
ISBN
9781589799967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.52

Hardcover. Modern international studies of world theatre and drama have begun to acknowledge the Arab world only after the contributions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Within the Arab world, the contributions of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco to modern drama and to post-colonial expression remain especially neglected, a problem that this book addresses. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 1HBM; 1HBT; AN; ASZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230278745
ISBN
9780230278745
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.90

Paperback. Dioramas and panoramas, freaks and magicians, waxworks and menageries, obscure relics and stuffed animals - a dazzling assortment of curiosities attracted the gaze of the nineteenth-century spectator at the dime museum. This title recaptures this ephemeral and scarcely documented institution of American culture from the margins of history. Num Pages: 214 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASZ; GM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780814718865
ISBN
9780814718865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.95

Hardcover. The first full-length study of comedy on the burlesque stage, this book takes the reader inside the burlesque houses of the 1930s, looks at the role comedy played in an entertainment form known mostly for striptease, and explores how these sketch performers approached their craft. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZB; ASZH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116795
ISBN
9780230116795
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.13
€ 46.17

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

€ 51.13
€ 45.32

Hardback. This wide-ranging celebration of the variety and complexity of international film comedy covers work from the days of silent movies to the present on a global scale, including Europe, the Middle East and Asia as well as the United States. Editor(s): Horton, Andrew; Rapf, Joanna E. Num Pages: 584 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN; ASZB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 179 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1178.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444338591
ISBN
9781444338591
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 233.26

Hardcover. For three centuries, the Fiesta de Santa Fe has commemorated historical events including the Spanish reconquest of New Mexico by Don Diego de Vargas in 1692 and the confraternity of the Rosary named in honour of La Conquistadors. This book illuminates what is special about Santa Fe's yearly celebration. Num Pages: 76 pages, 20 b/w photos. BIC Classification: ASZP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 196 x 10. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press United States
Edition
1st edition,
Number of pages
76
Condition
New
SKU
V9780890135327
ISBN
9780890135327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.63

paperback. The definitive history of the longest-running comedy programme and sitcom in the world. Num Pages: 320 pages, col. Illustrations, ports. (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: APT; ASZB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 240. 8 Volumes
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Aurum Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781845137113
ISBN
9781845137113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 10.71

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
SPCK Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857210258
ISBN
9780857210258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.20

Hardcover. Deals with post-war culture and society and the Edinburgh Festivals. This book explores the 'culture wars' of 1945-1970 and is the study of the origins and development of this leading annual arts extravaganza. It uses festivals (and key theatre ventures) in Edinburgh as a lens for understanding wider social and cultural change in post-war Britain. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; AB; ASZP; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748670307
ISBN
9780748670307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.93
€ 100.65

Paperback. .
Publisher
Hawthorn Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
25300th
Condition
New
SKU
V9781869890476
ISBN
9781869890476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.21

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