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  • Britain Had Talent

    A History of Variety Theatre

    by Oliver Double ...
    In the first major academic work to examine British variety theatre, Double provides a detailed history of this art form and analyses its performance dynamics and techniques. Encompassing singers, comedians, dancers, magicians, ventriloquists and diverse speciality acts, this vibrant book draws on a series of new interviews with variety veterans. ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Stand-Up Comedy

    Edited by Oliver Double ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance
    Stand-up comedy is one of the simplest theatre forms in existence. The comedian stands on a (usually) bare stage, talking straight to the audience in the hope of getting laughs. Yet it has never been more popular, with national scenes developing across every continent except Antarctica. In this insightful and accessibly written volume, diverse chapters explore the subject from many angles, ranging ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Getting the Joke

    The Inner Workings of Stand-Up Comedy

    by Oliver Double ...
    Series series Performance Books
    'This is the kind of book that troubles grey-suited committees of academic peers. It's too enjoyable. But that, given its subject, is just what it ought to be, and it treats that subject seriously . . . There isn't a “dull” page anywhere in the book.' – Professor Peter Thomson, Studies in Theatre and PerformanceComedy is changing: stand-up comedians routinely sell out stadia, their audience ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Getting The Joke

    The Art of Stand-up Comedy

    by Oliver Double ...
    Series series Performance Books
    An examination of the art of stand-up comedy, its constituent parts and how they workConsidering stand-up comedy to be an art-form deserving greater attention and analysis, Getting the Joke provides an exploration of the work of the stand-up comedian. Beginning with a brief history of the art form, the book goes on to examine the key elements, such as the comedian's stage persona, their material ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Alternative Comedy Now and Then

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Oliver Double, Sharon Lockyer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and continues to influence contemporary stand-up comedy. The collection examines the contexts, performances and reception of alternative comedy in order to provide a holistic approach to examining the socio ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Alternative Comedy

    1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up

    by Oliver Double, Claire Cochrane, Bruce McConachie ...
    Series series Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance
    In the late 1970s, the alternative comedy scene exploded into life in Britain and completely changed the style, subject matter and politics of British stand-up. Contemporary critics talked about it as 'anti-matter comedy' that 'makes you laugh while actually rearranging large chunks of your brain'. This book draws on a wealth of archive material – including unpublished recordings of early ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Popular Performance

    Edited by Adam Ainsworth, Oliver Double, Ms Louise Peacock ...
    There is no fourth wall in popular performance. The show is firmly rooted in the here and now, and the performers address the audience directly, while the audience answer back with laughter, applause or heckling. Performer and role are interlaced, so that we are left uncertain about just how the persona we see onstage might relate to the private person who presents it to us.Popular Performance ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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  • Art Into Pop

    by Simon Frith, Howard Horne ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Popular Music
    This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to recording studio, it focuses on two key moments – the early 1960s, when art students like John Lennon and Eric Clapton begin to play their own versions of American rock and blues and inflected youth music ... Read more

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  • Don't Look Now

    British Cinema in the 1970s

    Edited by Paul Newland ...
    Paul Newland is a lecturer in film studies in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at Aberystwyth University. ... Read more

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  • Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories

    Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 2

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this book examines how drag performance is a political, socio-cultural practice with a widespread lineage throughout the history of performance. This volume maps the multi-threaded contexts of contemporary practices while rooting them in their fabulous historical past and ... Read more

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  • Halfway To Hollywood

    Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two)

    by Michael Palin ...
    Michael Palin's bestselling diaries of the 1980s.After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life, culminating in the smash hit A FISH CALLED WANDA (for which he won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor), and ... Read more

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