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Played Out: The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire Brandon J. Manning 9781978824249
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.67Dating back to the blackface minstrel performances of Bert Williams and the trickster figure of Uncle Julius in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Tales, black humorists have negotiated American racial... -
Pandemic Performance: Resilience, Liveness, and Protest in Quarantine Times Kendra Capece 9781032071947
SciFier: £154.33performance theory, art and public policy, art and social justice, global catastrophes and local actionsAbout the AuthorKendra Claire Capece is a New York-based writer and researcher with special... -
One Foot in the Grave by David Renwick
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.40Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781963579Author David RenwickFormat HardbackImprint -
Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life Daniel Sloss 9780525658146
SciFier: £14.50Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525658146Author Daniel SlossFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Played Out: The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire Brandon J. Manning 9781978824256
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £51.93Dating back to the blackface minstrel performances of Bert Williams and the trickster figure of Uncle Julius in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Tales, black humorists have negotiated American racial... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883379
SciFier: £112.99Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide... -
Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians as Public Intellectuals Jared N. Champion 9781496835482
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £72.25Stand-up comedians have a long history of walking a careful line between serious and playful engagement with social issues: Lenny Bruce questioned the symbolic valence of racial slurs, Dick Gregory... -
Clown: The Physical Comedian Joe Dieffenbacher (Independent scholar, UK) 9781350143098
SciFier: £92.99Clown: The Physical Comedian is a detailed and comprehensive workbook for those interested in the art of clowning and physical theatre, including actors, directors, improvisers, stand-up comedians,... -
Between Laughter and Satire by Conal Condren
SciFier: £112.99This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for granted in a field of study for which history has been marginal. It disputes... -
Comedy in Crises by Chrisoula Lionis
RRP: £119.99SciFier: £112.99Comedy in Crises provides a novel contribution to an emerging comedy studies field, offering a fresh approach and understanding toward both the motivation and reception of humour in diverse... -
Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis: On the Couch with Lucy, Basil, and Kimmie D.T. Klika (Middlesex University, UK) 9781501354908
SciFier: £36.99Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis puts the sitcom character on the analyst's couch and closely examines the characters of Basil Fawlty, Lucy Ricardo and Kim from Australia's Kath & Kim,... -
Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy Linda Mizejewski 9781477314517
RRP: £79.00SciFier: £62.90Ideal for classroom use, this anthology of original essays by the leading authorities on women's comedy surveys the disorderly, subversive, and unruly performances of women comics from silent film to... -
Why Stand-up Matters: How Comedians Manipulate and Influence Sophie Quirk (University of Kent, UK,) 9781472578938
SciFier: £97.99Funny, lively and unpredictable, stand-up comedy is above all a medium to be enjoyed. Popular as a good night out and packing the TV schedules, stand-up permeates British society and culture. ... -
Romantic Comedy Prof. Trevor R. Griffiths (London) 9781350183377
SciFier: £78.49'The course of true love never did run smooth' - so says Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and for more than 2000 years the problems faced by young men and women fighting to find and keep an... -
Wooing the Dragon by Matthew Johnson
RRP: £8.40SciFier: £8.24Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997084641Author Matthew JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint -
The Papers of Will Rogers: Wild West and Vaudeville, April 1904-September 1908 Will Rogers 9780806132679
SciFier: £54.00The stage career of Will Rogers, one of America's most influential humorists, began to take shape during the years covered by this documentary history, the second volume in The Papers of Will Rogers... -
Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies by Arthur Frank Wertheim
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £17.82Will Rogers and Florenz Ziegfeld are two magic names in show business. Today Rogers is considered America's most beloved humorist, while Ziegfeld is recognized as the most flamboyant impresario in...