Researching Popular Entertainment

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction: Entertainment as method

Kim Baston and Jason Price

I. ARCHIVES

2. Alternative Archives in Popular Entertainment Research: The Chinese Exclusion Act case files

Maria DeSimone

3. Like Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Child actors and the archive

Gillian Arrighi

4. Don Juan in Montreal: Investigating music in eighteenth century pantomime

Kim Baston

5. Carry on Curating: Comedy at the V&A

Simon Sladen

II. TEXT

6. In Search of Lost Performances: The challenges of reconstructing a nineteenth-century Karagoez play

Nazli M. UEmit

7. Postcards and Popular Entertainment Studies: Resources and methods

Penny Farfan

8. Seductive Texts: The uses of art as historical evidence

Jason Price

9. Reading Meaning in a Contested Landscape: The challenges of investigating Australian bushranger re-enactments

Janys Hayes

III. BODIES

10. Seeking the Ghost Clari: Creative practice and virtual reality as a method for the revival of nineteenth-century performances in colonial Australia

Jane Woollard

11. Finding Likay through Practice: A research-practitioner's reflection on specialising in the Thai popular form

Sukanya Sompiboon

12. Pierrots on the Prom: re-enactment, revival and in-heritage transfer in seaside performance

Tony Lidington

13. Funny Then and Now?: Reenacting World War II soldier sketch comedy

Tara Demmy

14. Placing Yourself in Performance Research: A phenomenological approach to investigating stand-up comedy

Yingnan Chu

15. Lip-synching for (some) Life: Researching queer/camp bodies through practice-based methods

Simon Dodi

Index

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• Métodos de pesquisa: geral
• Ciências da biblioteca e da informação
• Estudos teatrais
• Artes de representação (performativas)
• Dança
• Humanidades
• Cultura popular
• Sociologia

Popular Entertainment;Theatre;Performance