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Researching popular entertainment / edited by Kim Baston and Jason Price.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies
- Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performing arts--Research--Methodology.
- Performing arts.
- Amusements--Research--Methodology.
- Amusements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 240 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.
- Biography/History:
- Kim Baston is Adjunct Senior Lecturer at LaTrobe University, Australia. She spent many years working as an actor, director, animateur, and composer in theatre and film, in the UK and in Australia. Her research interests include the use of music in theatre, applied theatre, circus history and culture, and popular entertainments. Jason Price is a Reader in Theatreand Performance Studies at the School of Media, Arts and Humanities in the University of Sussex, UK. He served as co-convenor of the Popular Entertainments Working Group with the International Federation for Theatre Research from 2018 to 2024.
- Contents:
- I. Archives
- Alternative archives in popular entertainment research: The Chinese exclusion act case files / Maria DeSimone
- Like finding a needle in a haystack: Child actors and the archive / Gillian Arrighi
- Don Juan in Montreal: Investigating music in eighteenth century pantomime / Kim Baston
- Carry on curating: Comedy at the V&A / Simon Sladen
- II. Text
- In search of lost performances: The challenges of reconstructing a nineteenth-century Karagöz play / Nazli M. Ümit
- Postcards and popular entertainment studies: Resources and methods / Penny Farfan
- Seductive texts: The uses of art as historical evidence / Jason Price
- Reading meaning in a contested landscape: The challenges of investigating Australian bushranger re-enactments / Janys Hayes
- III. Bodies
- Seeking the ghost Clari: Creative practice and virtual reality as a method for the revival of nineteenth-century performances in colonial Australia / Jane Woollard
- Finding Likay through practice: A research-practitioner's reflection on specialising in the Thai popular form / Sukanya Sompiboon
- Pierrots on the Prom: re-enactment, revival and in-heritage transfer in seaside performance / Tony Lidington
- Funny then and now?: Reenacting World War II soldier sketch comedy / Tara Demmy
- Placing yourself in performance research: A phenomenological approach to investigating stand-up comedy / Yingnan Chu
- Lip-synching for (some) Life: Researching queer/camp bodies through practice-based methods / Simon Dodi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 18, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Researching popular entertainment
- ISBN:
- 9781003436546
- 1003436544
- 9781040271551
- 1040271553
- 9781040271612
- 1040271618
- Publisher Number:
- 40032584503
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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