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Creating Solo Performance Sean Bruno 9780415719988
SciFier: €184.36Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you - the performer - with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on the... -
Digging Up Mother by Doug Stanhope
SciFier: €17.09Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825385Author Doug StanhopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics Linda Mizejewski 9780292756915
RRP: €54.00SciFier: €45.13Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten... -
Funny As by Paul Horan
RRP: €59.94SciFier: €37.18From the Kiwi Concert Party to The Topp Twins, Billy T. James to Rose Matafeo, Fred Dagg to Flight of the Conchords, New Zealanders have made each other laugh in ways distinctive to these islands. ... -
No Laughing Matter by C. W. Marshall (Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada)
SciFier: €55.19No Laughing Matter is a wide-ranging collection of new studies of the comic theatre of Athens, from its origins until the 340s BCE. Fifteen international scholars employ an array of approaches and... -
The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present Professor Judith Roof (Rice University, USA) 9781501354885
SciFier: €44.39The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious... -
Beginning Tap Dance Lisa Lewis 9781450411981
RRP: €39.60SciFier: €36.60Beginning Tap Dance With HKPropel Access introduces students to tap dance techniques and cultivates an appreciation of tap dance as a performing art. Focusing on novice dancers, experienced tap... -
All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents Rebecca Krefting (Assistant Professor, Skidmore College) 9781421414300
SciFier: €27.59In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, "charged humor," and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears... -
Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier Alan Zweibel 9781419735288
RRP: €23.99SciFier: €20.68With his tender, funny memoir of four decades in the business, Alan Zweibel traces the history of American comedy Alan Zweibel started his comedy career selling jokes for seven dollars apiece to... -
Beyond a Joke: Parody in English Film and Television Comedy Neil Archer (Keele University, UK) 9781350242449
SciFier: €41.99At the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, a global audience of nearly one billion viewers were treated to the unprecedented sight of James Bond meeting Queen Elizabeth II. Shortly after,... -
Parody, Politics and the Populace in Greek Old Comedy Professor Donald Sells (University of Michigan, USA) 9781350060517
SciFier: €161.99This book argues that Old Comedy's parodic and non-parodic engagement with tragedy, satyr play, and contemporary lyric is geared to enhancing its own status as the preeminent discourse on Athenian... -
Popular Performance Adam Ainsworth (Kingston University, London, UK) 9781350089686
SciFier: €45.59There 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... -
Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia by Barnaby King
SciFier: €45.59Contemporary Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia brings to light the emergence of new kinds of clowning in everyday life in Colombia, focusing particularly on the pervasive presence of clowns... -
Parody, Politics and the Populace in Greek Old Comedy Professor Donald Sells (University of Michigan, USA) 9781350166288
SciFier: €43.19This book argues that Old Comedy's parodic and non-parodic engagement with tragedy, satyr play, and contemporary lyric is geared to enhancing its own status as the preeminent discourse on Athenian... -
Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice: Dance and Live Art in Contemporary South Africa and Beyond Catherine Cole 9780472074587
SciFier: €87.61Unresolved pasts tend to return. In the aftermath of state-perpetrated injustice, a facade of peace can suddenly give way. In such circumstances, the voices and visions of artists can help us see... -
Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice Catherine Cole 9780472054589
RRP: €39.54SciFier: €37.85Unresolved pasts tend to return. In the aftermath of state-perpetrated injustice, a facade of peace can suddenly give way. In such circumstances, the voices and visions of artists can help us see... -
Inside Comedy: The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decades David Steinberg 9780813197562
RRP: €33.54SciFier: €27.14Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813197562Author David SteinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint -
Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance Daniel Hammett (University of Sheffield) 9781529219715
RRP: €57.59SciFier: €46.84Analyses of humour often focus primarily on the Global North, with little consideration for examples and practices from elsewhere. This book provides a vital contribution to humour theory by... -
Sicker in the Head Judd Apatow 9780525509424
RRP: €19.19SciFier: €15.77Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525509424Author Judd ApatowFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire by Matthew Kaiser
SciFier: €118.78Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater studies, this volume provides a thorough and varied overview of the... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age Professor Andrew McConnell Stott 9781350000735
SciFier: €118.78Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety. It argues that early modern... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment by Elizabeth Kraft
SciFier: €118.78This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity by mr Michael Ewans
SciFier: €118.78Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Modern Age Ms Louise Peacock 9781350000766
SciFier: €118.78Drawing together contributions by scholars from a variety of fields, including theater, film and television, sociology, and visual culture, this volume explores the range and diversity of comedic... -
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama by Bob Odenkirk
SciFier: €18.17Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399180538Author Bob OdenkirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Fools and Folly Clifford Davidson 9781879288690
SciFier: €22.49The Fool in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period was either a person who capitalized on his natural deficiencies, which were then considered amusing, or a professional entertainer the artificial... -
Played Out: The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire Brandon J. Manning 9781978824249
RRP: €26.39SciFier: €22.40Dating 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... -
Dirty Daddy by Bob Saget
SciFier: €11.99He is the sweetly neurotic father on the smash hit Full House ...The charming, wisecracking host of America's Funniest Home Videos ...The scatological, out-of-his-mind stand-up comic from Entourage... -
One Foot in the Grave by David Renwick
RRP: €23.99SciFier: €18.48Apologies 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: €17.68Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525658146Author Daniel SlossFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Bare Truth: Stars of Burlesque from the 40s and 50s Len Rothe 9780764306037
RRP: €22.79SciFier: €18.10Following the tremendous success of his first book on the subject, The Queens of Burlesque, Len Rothe has again pulled from his collection of original photographs of entertainers this delightful... -
Machine-Age Comedy Michael North 9780195381221
SciFier: €181.49In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form... -
Movie Comedians of the 1950s by Wes D. Gehring
RRP: €34.79SciFier: €30.25The examination of 1950s film clowns suggestions this decade was the 20th century's most volatile for the genre. Besides McCarthyism and TV and their potential for the dumbing down of pictures, this... -
![Lights, Camera, Accordion!: Eye-Popping Photographs of "Weird Al" Yankovic, 1981-2006 Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz 9781948221627](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/156019/707570/9781948221627__42371.1723680331.jpg?c=1 "Lights, Camera, Accordion!: Eye-Popping Photographs of "Weird Al" Yankovic, 1981-2006 Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz 9781948221627")
Lights, Camera, Accordion!: Eye-Popping Photographs of "Weird Al" Yankovic, 1981-2006 Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz 9781948221627
RRP: €34.79SciFier: €26.10As featured in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, The A.V. Club, Consequence, Mashable, Mental Floss, Book Riot and more!"Weird Al" Yankovic continues as one of our most beloved comedians, actors, and... -
Played Out: The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire Brandon J. Manning 9781978824256
RRP: €72.00SciFier: €62.32Dating 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... -
Joe E. Brown by Wes D. Gehring
RRP: €34.79SciFier: €30.25As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E. Brown had a job: making faces at the firemen on passing coal-burning trains so they would throw coal at him. As a child he also worked as... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883379
SciFier: €135.59Video 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: €130.80SciFier: €86.70Stand-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... -
Ethics in Comedy by Steven A. Benko
RRP: €34.79SciFier: €30.25All humans laugh. However, there is little agreement about what is appropriate to laugh at. While laughter can unite people by showing how they share values and perspectives, it is also has the power... -
Clown: The Physical Comedian Joe Dieffenbacher (Independent scholar, UK) 9781350143098
SciFier: €111.59Clown: 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,...